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On the following intersegmental furrow (i. e., xiii./xiv.) are two pairs of minute 

 orifices, which lie on a level with each of the four ventral setae. They are rendered 

 more conspicuous by being surrounded with a yellowish area. This area is the 

 expression of internal sacs, which probably correspond to the copulatory glands found in 

 many Earthworms of the families Megascolicidse and Geoscolicidte, but not, I believe, 

 hitherto recorded among the Eudrilidse. These sacs, though small, are very easily to 

 be seen when the septum separating segments xiii. and xiv. is pushed forward. 



The male pores are very large and conspicuous, and lie between segments xvii. and 

 xviii. in a straight line with the spermathecal pores. The flaps of skin surrounding 

 the pores cause them to be rather obliquely set, as is shown in the accompanying 

 figure (text-fig. 7). The hinder margin of each orifice is much thickened and forms 

 a glandular pad ; the two very nearly meet in the middle line behind. 



The intersegmental septa are not very much thickened, and they cease to be at all 

 thickened after that which separates segments xi./xii. The gizzard, which is well 

 developed, though not very large, lies undoubtedly in segment v. The median 

 calciferous pouches are in segments ix., x., and xi. The paired calciferous glands of 

 segment xiii. have rather an unusual form. Each consist? of a relatively narrow 

 tubrrlar coiled structure very much longer than it is broad. This lies coiled on each 

 side of the gut in the xiiith segment. 



The dorsal blood-vessel is nowhere double ; the last pair of hearts is in segment xi. 



The male organs are much like those of other species of this genus. The present 

 species is holandrous, and the sperm-sacs are two pairs, more or less tongue-shaped 

 bodies, in segments xi. and xii. The ends of the sperm-ducts near to where they open 

 into the sperm-sacs are, as in other Eudrilidse, dilated into what Michaelsen has 

 termed a " Samenmagazin." As in other species of Eminoscolex, the region of the 

 sperm-ducts in question is not only widened but is of some length and coiled, forming 

 a body of oval contour constituted by the closely approximated windings of the tube. 

 It is conspicuous through its white colour as in other Eudrilidee. The sperm-duct 

 opens into the tip of the spermiducal gland (text-tig. 8, p. 40), which is in this species 

 directed forwards ; the entu-e gland is sausage-shaped and bent once upon itself. It 

 ends in a narrow muscular duct which opens into the rather large Bursa propulsoria ; 

 the latter is of circular contour. There are no penial setae. 



The female organs of generation were so much softened that some details have 

 probably escaped me. It is, however, plain that there are a pair of nearly spherical 

 spermathecal sacs which are perfectly free from each other and do not communicate, 

 as in some species of the genus, at the distal extremity with each other. The oviduct 

 is very long and straight in its course ; anteriorly it is seen to communicate with a 

 rather small receptaculum ovorum, which lies close to the septum dividing the xiiith 

 from the xivth segment to the outside of the oviduct. In the other side is a slight 

 swelling which appears to be fixed against the septum dividing the same segments, 



