NEW YORKSHIRE EARTHWORMS; 
WITH AN 
EMENDED LIST OF NORTH BRITISH SPECIES. 
Rey, HILDERIC FRIEND, F.L.S., 
Idle, Bradford; Author of ‘Flowers and Flower Lore,’ ete. 
AFTER bestowing a large amount of time on the task of reducing our 
worm-lore chaos to order, I have at length been able to determine 
that hitherto unrecorded species exist in considerable numbers in 
Airedale. The first has been previously noted as British, but I have 
no information respecting its distribution in these islands at present 
which is sufficiently authentic to be relied upon, except that which. 
my own researches have supplied. I have no doubt, however, but 
that it occurs in many localities in rich soil and on the banks of 
tivers where plenty of vegetable mould occurs. I have found it 
myself by the lake at Clumber, as well as at Keighley and Apperley, 
and have received it from Hull, Northants, Gloucestershire, Devon- 
shire, and elsewhere. 
The worm under discussion was first described by Eisen in 1873, 
and named by him AWolobophora subrubicunda. As his original 
description has, so far as I am aware, never appeared in any English 
journal, I subjoin the Latin portion for the guidance of future 
collectors. 
ALLOLOBOPHORA SUBRUBICUNDA. 
Corpus cylindricum, antice aliquid depressum, postice attenuatum. 
Lobus cephaticus magnus, pallidus, dimidiam partem segmentis buc- 
Calis occupans. Cingu/um magnum, perspicuum, e 7 segmentis sepe 
confectum. Zudbercula pubertatis tria in segm. 27, 28, 29, in utroque 
latere cinguli. Sefe ubique bine approximate, sed intervallo ali- 
quanto majore quam in A//olobophora foetida. Segmenta circiter r10. 
Longitudo circiter go mm. (Eisen, ‘Om Skand. Lombr.,’ in Ofversigt 
af Kongl. Veten. Ahad. Forh., 1873, No. 8, p. 51)- 
Following the systematic diagnosis is an account of the worm in 
Swedish, which supplies a number of characters by means of which 
this species may be distinguished from the Brandling, which is one of 
its nearest allies. It is evidence of the little interest which has been 
taken in this branch of science that though this species of earth-worm 
has been known to British anglers for at least a couple of centuries 
arch 1892, 
