194 Mtt, F. B. 13BDDAED ON eautiiwoiims [Jan. 14, 



Mr. Matscliie, in his excellent book on the 'Mammals of 

 German East Africa,' calls the Central-African form Adaiota hob 

 (p. 120), but in the appendix he calls it Aclenota Icoha, Erxl. 

 (p. 147). 



I cannot believe that Buffon's " Koba ou la grande vacho du 

 Senegal " was an Aclenota at all, and if it was one, it rather seems 

 to me that Buffon had had two sluilis of the same species, and 

 that he figured the adult specimen as " kola " and the young one 

 as "lo6." Por he aflirms that both came from the Senegal. 



Adenota thomasi is known from the northern Cen I ral- African 

 Lake region :- — Kavirondo, Ussoga, Uganda (Spelce, JacLson, 

 Oedge, Litgard, ShiUhnann, Neumann) ; Unyoro, Albert Lake 

 (Lnc/ard) ; Simiu Biver — south-east corner of the Victoria Nyan/.a 

 (Lant/Jteld). Unyoro is the most northern known point. It does 

 not occur east of the waterslied to the Victoria Nyanza (IMau 

 tjotik mountains). North of Unyoro is the region of Adenota 

 nwrice, Gray, and A. leucotis, Licht. (Bahr el Gazal, Sobat, Kir). 

 To the west the true A. lob occurs — Senegal and Gambia (B.M. 

 Type Paris Mus.), Togo {Bawnann), Cameroons (Zenl-er), extend- 

 ing eastward ' to the Ubangi river, w hence Dybowsky brought 

 specimens to Paris. 



Southward occur A. leche find A. vardoni, which are both 

 known from British Central Africa (Lakes Mwero, Bangweolo, 

 Nyassa, south Tanganyika). It seems that the two species of 

 Adenota met with by Biihm and Beichard west of Tanganyika 

 must have belonged to these last two species. 



A. thomasi lives in herds of 30-60, about five times as many 

 females as males ; its habits are those of jSHpyceros mdampus, but 

 it ])refers rather damp meadov; s near the water. Kiganda name : 

 Nssimn. 



1 shall on a future occasion give a more exact com])arison 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 Perichceta, &c. By Fuank E. Beddakd, 

 RR.S., &c. 



[Received December 16, 1895.] 



So little has been done in exploring the Eai-thworm-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. li. L. Perkins 

 under the auspices of the British Association Committee for the 

 exploration of those islands. Two collectious made at diffeiont 

 times and kindly forwarded to me by Br. D. Sharp, E.E.S., 

 include examples of a number of species principally belonging 



