18 FRIEND: A CHECK-LIST OF BRITISH EARTH-WORMS. 
Lumbricus rubellus Hoffm. 3{-32. Distribution—Same 
as iv. 1 
ge eas purpureus Eisen. 38-33. Distribution—Same 
as 
Ny 
bi 
Distribution— 
stershire, Yorkshire, 
4: See cas rubescens Friend. 34739. 
Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, Norfolk, Glouces 
Lanarkshire, Down, Dublin. 
Lumbricus papillosus Friend. $3°37. Déstribution— 
Co. Dublin, Ireland. [On the Continent Z. me/ibeus Rosa, 
has similarly only five girdle segments. These species have 
hitherto not been found in England.] 
II. GENUS ALLOLOBOPHORA. 
Lip partially dovetailed into first ring. Girdle segments from 
four to ten in number. TZudercula pubertatis on consecutive or 
alternate segments, either as papillae or forming a distinct band. 
Set x eight in four couples, more or less irregularly disposed. Male 
pores as in Lumbricus. Colour-range very wide—brown, clay, flesh, 
green—seldom iridescent. Usually cylindrical throughout. 
slime or turbid fluid, sometimes very pungent. Nine British species 
known. 
W wo 
6. Allolobophora longa Ude. $8733. Distribution—Same 
as 
7. Allolobophora profuga Rosa. 39°35. Distribution— 
Nottinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Montgomery, N. Wales 
Gloucestershire, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Westmorland. 
8. Allolobophora turgida Eisen. 28734. Distribution— 
Sussex, Essex, Devonshire, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Somersetshire, 
Wilts, Herts, Lancashire, Middlesex, Notts, Dublin, Down, 
erry, Kent, Westmorland, Cumberland, Gloucestershire, 
Montgomery, N. Wales, Lanarkshire, Perth. Formerly 
confused with the next; on which account the earlier 
records for Nos. 8 and 9 are unreliable. 
9. Allolobophora trapezoidea Dugts. 33-34. Distribution — 
Essex, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Somersetshire, Yorkshire, 
Gloucester, Bucks, Oxford, Herts, Cumberland, Lancashire, 
Lanarkshire, Westmorland, Montgomery, N. Wales, Kerry. 
See No. 8. ote that in one case the papillz are on two 
alternate segments (31: 33), while in the other they cover 
three consecutive segments (31-33). 
10. Allolobophora mucosa Eisen. 28-332.  Distribution— 
ussex, Devonshire, Norfolk, Essex, Nottinghamshire, York- 
Naturalist, 
