300 RET. H. TEIEND ON" THE 



occurs, as Ude has correctly pointed out, between segments 5 and 6. 

 Spermathecae are found in the 10th segment, which open in 

 intersegment 9/10 in the direction of the superior pair of setse. 



Eisen gives full directions for distinguishing between this 

 species and the Brandling {Allolohophora foetida, Sav.) ; but if 

 examined in a living condition, these instructions are absolutely 

 unnecessary. Benham is in error * when he says A. suhrubi- 

 cunda is destitute of spermathecse and tuhercula puhertatis. 



Synonyms : Allolohophora subruhicunda, Eisen {op. cit. p. 51). 

 Lumhricus puter, Hoffmeister, 1845 ; Dendrohcena puter (CErley, 

 'A Mag. Olig. Eaunaja,' 1880, p. 586). (Erley has rightly 

 identified the worm, but did not recognize that it was the same 

 as Eisen's subruhicunda. He, however, doubted the accuracy of 

 assigning i. puter, Hoffm., to D. BoecMi, Eisen. To this species, 

 and not to D. Boeckii, Eisen, as E-osa suggests, we must, I think, 

 relegate the Enterion octaedrum, Savigny, and perhaps also 

 A. Fraissei, CErley. 



Widely distributed both in England and abroad. Among 

 British localities I may mention Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, 

 Devonshire, Northants, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Essex, Kent, 

 and Sussex. It is recorded also for Siberia, Russia, Sweden, 

 Italy, Hungary, &c. 



4. A. (Dendeob^ka) constricta, Bosa. 



During a visit to the south of England in the spring of this 

 year I had the good fortune to find a new British species of 

 dendrobsenic worm, which, for want of a popular name, I desig- 

 nate the Narrow-ring Worm (A. constricta, E-osa). As it corre- 

 sponds entirely with Eosa's description, which has never been 

 printed in English, I give a translation of the original f. The 

 medium length of this species is about 25 millim. ; while it may 

 extend to 45 when living, in alcohol it is usually nearer 20 

 millim. The number of segments, which are closely compressed, 

 is about 90 to 100. The form is cylindrical, with a gradual 

 attenuation of the two extremities. The girdle is swollen, and 

 when the animal is contracted assumes a globose shape. The 

 colour is fundamentally a transparent flesh- or rose-red. The 

 intestine may be seen in the parts which are less pigmented — 

 the colouring-matter being (as frequently in the Grilt-tail, which 



* ' Attempt to Classify Earthworms,' Q. J. M. S. xxxi. p. 260. 

 t ' II Lumbrici del Piemonte,' 1884, pp. 38-9. 



