414 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON 



observe any case where the spermatophores were sticking on to 

 the surface of the body of the worm, as they do in the Lumbricidfe, 

 in Alma, in Bothrioneuron, and among the Leeches. The fact 

 that so many were crowded together in one spei'matheca in the 

 species figured here seems to be some evidence in favour of 

 regarding the spermathecpe as not being their place of origin. 

 There are also some other facts which favour the same negative 

 supposition. The size of these bodies is small ; and it seems 

 difficult to imagine that they could be moulded in the spermathecse, 

 which are comparativelj' so large. It might be held, indeed, that 

 the narrow spout in which the spermatophore ends was moulded 

 by the compressed duct of the spermatheca ; but this leaves the 

 larger body of the spermatophore unaccounted for. 



Text-fig. 134. 



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Spei'matheca {C.p.) at Pherethna montcva containing spermatophores {Sj>.). 



I believe that I showed some reason for regarding the 

 spermatophores of Benhamia austeni* as entii^ely formed in 

 the spermatheca and its appendage. But it is equally or perhaps 

 more certain that in other species of 01igoch?eta the spermato- 

 phores are moulded in the glands appended to the male ejaculatory 



* " On the Spermatophores in the Genus Benhamia," P. Z. S. 1901, p. 70.1 



