300 NOTES AND NEWS. 
A TABULAR VIEW OF THE BRITISH LUMBRICI. 
SEGMENTS OCCUPIED BY AVERAGE. PAPILLaé. 
LUMBRICUS. ae Be] ed 
No. o Male | Else- 
| Ist 
Girdle. | Band. a Length. “Segments Pore. | where. 
eid pad canals, | | 32-37 33-36 8/9 iced 150-200| 15 
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2. Piso inigien| 33 37 34-37 9/10 inches 130-150} 15 | 34,36 
3. pridespens Hee t} 
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34-39 35-38 5/6 its 100-130| 15 | 28 
La rubellus tf- a 
aaphes 845 - 27-32 28-31 7/8 ers too-t25) 6 re) 
ve porpereis Eisen, ai 
28-33 | 29-32 6/7 | 2inches. 80-100 ° Io 
I beg to point out the great value to the true earth-worms of the 
flattened or spathulate tail-extremity. So far as I am aware it has 
never been observed by any of my predecessors that the habitat of 
the species and the shape of the posterior part have a direct 
relationship to each other. It is only among those species which 
expose a portion of their body when in search of food, while the 
other remains in the burrow, that the distinctly flattened tail is 
found in our native species. Oriental species are, as a rule, as round 
as a straw, while our tree-haunting species are usually octangular. 
I shall have some curious facts to present on this point in another 
paper on ‘Variation among Annelids,’ resulting from my study Of 
- native earth and tree worms, should such a communication oe 
_ acceptable. Meanwhile, I am content to observe that the shape of — 
the tail in the genus which — we bave: bess sioria bans is” 
_ value, since it enabl its burrow most 
a” ond so retain its hold if an attempt b be made to nes it 
; "NOTES AND ‘NEWS. . 
iv heb of M.Se. has lately ‘been conferred t vinnie ion 
Mr. WLE. ‘Hoyle, M.A.Oxon,, the Prot A. 
Mib nes Marshall, M.A., M.D.Cant., c Pes bond = 
The Lincolnshire Naturalist’ Usion ast to ae in: fair v ay to become a 
