852 Transactions.— Zoology. 
Habitat: Dunedin and Hampden, in gardens and fields. This species 
differs from L. communis in having no sete before the clitellum, and in not 
having any tubercles on the sides of the clitellum. 
A variable species, sometimes of a greenish hue. In the young the setze 
are often found in front of the clitellum. 
LUMBRICUS ANNULATUS, sp. nov. 
Plate, Fig. D. 
Length, about three inches. Colour, pale brownish-red ; each segment 
with a dark reddish-brown transverve band in the centre ; inferior aspect 
much lighter. Body cylindrical in front, sub-pentagonal behind, tapering 
to both ends. Sets in four rows. Segments, 70 to 100, bi or tri-annulate. 
Clitellum, well marked, smooth, and shining, consisting of five or six seg- 
ments, commencing at the twenty-sixth ; not tuberculated inferiorly. Male 
genital openings in the sixteenth segment. Cephalic lobe, small and flat- 
tened, divided into anterior and posterior divisions inferiorly, Anterior 
border of buccal segment emarginate superiorly, entire inferiorly. 
Habitat: Dunedin, in gardens. 
In colour this species much resembles L. fwtidus of Europe, but is dis- 
tinguished by the shape of the cephalie lobe, the position of the male genital 
openings, and the well-marked clitellum. 
MEGASOLEX SYLVESTRIS, sp. nov. 
Plate, Fig. E. 
Length one and a half to two inches. Colour, dark red-brown. Body, 
cylindrical, tapering before and behind. Sets, numerous, arranged in 
about thirty double rows all round the body. Segments, 70 to 80 ; bi-annu- 
late. Clitellum, inconspicuous, composed of three segments, from fifteen 
to seventeen. 
Male genital openings on the second segment behind the clitellum, and 
with a pair of elongated curved sete in front of each. Cephalic lobe, small, 
flattened, with a deep transverse groove superiorly, and divided into anterior 
and posterior portions inferiorly. Anterior border of buccal segment, deeply 
excavated superiorly, entire inferiorly. 
Habitat : Dunedin, in rotten wood in the bush. 
MEGASOLEX LINEATUS, sp. nov. 
Plate, Fig. F. 
Length, two inches. Colour, reddish-brown, finely longitudinally 
striated with lighter. Body, cylindrical, tapering before and behind. 
Sete, very minute, in simple rows all round the body. Segments 70 
to 80. Clitellum inconspicuous, composed of four segments, from the 
fourteenth to seventeenth. 
