194 MR. F. E, BEDDARD ON EARTHWORMS [Jan. 14, 
Mr. Matschie, in his excellent book on the ‘Mammals of 
German East Africa,’ calls the Central-African form Adenota kob 
(p. 126), but in the appendix he calls it Adenota koba, Erxl. 
(p. 147). 
I cannot believe that Buffon’s ‘“‘Koba ou la grande vache du 
Sénégal ” was an Adenota at all, and if it was one, it rather seems 
to me that Buffon had had two skulls of the same species, and 
that he figured the adult specimen as “koba” and the young one 
as “kob.’ For he affirms that both came from the Senegal. 
Adenota thomasi is known from the northern Central-African 
Lake region:—Kavirondo, Ussoga, Uganda (Speke, Jackson, 
Gedge, Lugard, Stuhlmann, Neumann) ; Unyoro, Albert Lake 
(Lugard) ; Simiu River—south-east corner of the V ictoria Nyanza 
(Langheld). Unyoro is the most northern known point. It does 
not occur east of the watershed to the Victoria Nyanza (Mau 
Sotik mountains). North of Unyoro is the region of <Adenota 
marie, Gray, and A, leucotis, Licht. (Bahr el Gazal, Sobat, Kor). 
To the west the true A. 40} occurs—Nenegal and Gambia (B.M. 
Type Paris Mus.), Togo (Baumann), Cameroons (Zenker), extend- 
ing eastward to the Ubangi river, whence Dybowsky brought 
specimens to Paris. 
Southward occur A. leché and A. vardoni, which are both 
known from British Central Africa (Lakes Mwero, Bangweolo, 
Nyassa, south Tanganyika). It seems that the two species of 
Adenota net with by Bohm and Reichard west of Tanganyika 
must have belonged to these last two species. 
A. thomasi lives in herds of 30-50, about five times as many 
females as males; its habits are those of @pyceros melampus, but 
it prefers rather damp meadows near the water. Kiganda name: 
Nssunu. 
I shall on a future occasion givea more exact comparison of the 
six species forming the genus Adenota. 
6. On some Earthworms from the Sandwich Islands collected 
by Mr. R. L. Perkins; with an Appendix on some new 
Species of Pericheta, &c. By Franx E. Brpparp, 
F.R:S., &c. 
[Received December 16, 1895.] 
So little has been done in exploring the Earthworm-fauna of 
oceanic islands that I am particularly pleased at being able to offer 
to the Society an account of a rather extensive collection of 
Earthworms made in the Sandwich Islands by Mr. R. L. Perkins 
under the auspices of the British Association Committee for the 
exploration of those islands. Two collections made at different 
times and kindly forwarded to me by Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., 
include examples of a number of species principally belonging 
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