298 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON NEW OR [May 18, 



Guinea,' pt. ii. pi. 2, 1876), which belonged to the Museum of 

 Warsaw. 



Since then only one specimen has been obtained (see Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1883, p. 252), which is now in the British Museum, but nothing 

 trustworthy has been made out as to the supposed habitat of the 

 species — Waigiou {cf. Salvador!, Orn. Pap. ii. p. 64fj, 1881). 



Quite recently I have procured for the Dresden Museum a male 

 example of this rare species, therefore the fourth, offered by a 

 merchant from Amsterdam together with other Papuan birds. 

 This specimen resembles exactly those figured by Gould and my- 

 self, but its origin is quite as obscure as that of the other speci- 

 mens. The accompanying birds being apparently of species found 

 in New Guinea, and not in Waigiou, perhaps Beccari's supposition 

 (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 710, 1875), that this Paradise-bird 

 occurs on N.W. New Guinea and Salawati, may be right. 



As it is of importance to know where type specimens are preserved, 

 I add the history of those of Rhipidornis gulielmi-tertii described 

 by myself Having kept them in the Dresden Museum since 

 the year 1875, I one day in the year 1877 received a telegram from 

 van Musscheiibroek, who had returned home in 1876, telling me 

 that he wished to show the birds to King William III. I sent the 

 specimens to him, and never saw them again. They remained in 

 the hands of the king, and we never succeeded in recovering 

 these types for science, though supported by the late Prof. Schlegel 

 of Leydeu ; but after van Musschenbroek's death in the year 1883, 

 the King of the Netherlands delivered the specimens to the Museum 

 of the Zoological Society (Natura artis magistra) of Amsterdam, 

 where they probably will remain. 



2. Descriptions of some new or little-known Earthworms^ 

 together with an Account of the Variations in Structure 

 exhibited by Ferionyx cxcavatus, E. P. By Frank E. 

 BeddarDj M.A., F.R.S.E., Prosector to the Society. 



[Eeceived May 18, 1886.] 



Contents. 



1. Note on Terich(eta indica, Horst, p. 298. 



2. Pcrichceta horst i, n. sp., p. 300. 



3. A new Species of' Evdri/iis, p. 302. 



4. Additional note on Mkrochteta rappii, p. 306. 



5. Remarks on the Variation of Perionyx excavcdus, p.' 308. 



1. Note on PERiCHiETA indica, Ilorst. 



Perichceta, sp., Horst, Nederl. Arch. f. Zool. Bd. iv. 1879. 



Megascolex indicus, Horst, Notes from Leyden Museum, vol. v. 

 p. 186. 



With the exception of Lumlricus and other forms affined to it, 

 which ought perhaps to be regarded as subgenera {Allolohophora 



