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MR, F. E, BEDDAIiD AND MISS FEDARB 



[June 20, 



A few specimens of tliis genus have been recently received from 

 Kew Gardens through the kindness of Mr. jSTicholson. Their 

 native place is Jamaica. They evidently belong to the species 

 TrichurlMta hesperidum. In the description of that species there 

 .ue a tew lacunae. Some of these can be filled up by additional 

 facts derived from a study of these fresh specimens. The original, 



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Trichockata hesijeriduni, sperm-sac. 



and up to the present only, specimen of the genus was not mature. 

 Some of the worms which we refer to in the present communication 

 were fully mature. We are able therefore to map the clitellum, 

 which was not developed in the former specimen. 



This modified region of the integument occupies six segments, 



