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that it is too large to have been moulded in the narrow muscular 

 part of the sperraiducal gland. The end turned towards the 

 spermatheca was oval in form, and this region gradually narrowed 

 and then terminated abruptly in a large roughly rounded mass, of 

 greater diameter than the oval end of the spermatophore. The 

 structure was very hard, and a little brittle, and of the usual chitin 

 yellow. When viewed with the naked eye, or with a lens, the 

 distal end of the spermatophore was white from the enclosed 

 sperm. The finer middle region was of a golden yellow, since the 

 canal here within the spermatophore was narrow. The walls are 

 thick, especially of course those of the rather irregularly shaped 

 terminal sAvelling. Whether there is a terminal pore I do not know. 

 1 conclude with a brief definition of this new species, which I 

 propose to name after Mr. Moore : — 



Benhamia moorei, u. sp. 



Length 280 mm.f diameter 10-15 mm. Prostomium very small, 

 prolonged for a short ivay on to the buccal segment. Dorsal pores 

 commence v./vi. Clitellum xiii.-xxii. MalS pores on deep depression ; 

 seminal gutter convex imuards. Tivo pairs of genital papillce on 

 xuii./xviii. and xviii.jxix. Gizzards in vi. and vii.; calciferous 

 glands in xv., xvi., xv'ii., opening separately into oesophagus. No 

 septa very thick ; septum vi./vii. tuaniing. Dorsal vessel single ; last 

 heart in xii. Two pairs of sperm-duct funnels, Spermiducal glands 

 large and coiled. Fenial setce one to each gland, hooked at the tip 

 and marked throughout the greater part ivith fine rings ; at the very 

 tip very slightly pitted. BpermatJieccB with long muscular duct as 

 long as thep>ouch. Near to tlie beginning of the muscular chict a rosette 

 of four or five diverticula. Spermatophores pn'esent . 



Hal). Kurungu Mts., East Central Africa. 



(2) Benhamia johnstoni, n. sp. 



Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B., has sent to the Natural History 

 Museum three Earthworms which prove to be all of the same species, 

 and are closely allied to B. moorei which has just been described. 

 I am indebted to the kindness of Sir Harry Johnston as well as to 

 Dr. Lankester for allowing me the opportunity of examining these 

 worms. The species, which I propose to name after their 

 collector, is in many respects so near to B. moorei, that at first I 

 thought that I had before me some larger examples of that species. 

 Nevertheless, as I shall show, there are a number of points of 

 structure in which the two differ. 



B. johnstoni is a larger worm, though its actual length is less 

 than that of B. moorei ; the largest of the three specimens was 

 250 mm. in length, but quite 20 mm. in breadth, indeed a milli- 

 metre or two more in places. It is thus an exceptionally stout 

 species. The colour during life must have been very marked; 

 even in the preserved worms the contrasts of colours are 

 striking. The general colour above is of a red-brown, which 

 pales into a yellowish upon the ventral surface. The dorsal 



