-J98 MH. 1 . B. BBDDABD OX EABTHWOBMB [June 4, 



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

 pari of the spermiducal 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 muss, of 

 greater diameter than the oval end of the Bpermatophore. The 

 structure was very bard, and a little brittle, and of the usual chit in 

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

 distal end of the Bpermatophore was white from the enclosed 

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

 canal here within the Bpermatophore was narrow. The walls are 

 thick, especially of course those of the rather irregularly Bhaped 

 terminal swelling. Whether there is a terminal pore 1 do not know. 

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

 propose to name after Mr. Moore: — 



Benhamia moorei. n. sp. 



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

 •prolonged for a short way on to tin buccal segment. Dorsal pores 

 commena v. vi. Clitellum xiii.—xxii. Male pores on deep depression; 

 seminal gutter convex inwards. Two pairs of genital papilla on 

 xvii./xviii. and xviii./xix. Gizzards in vi. and vii.; calciferous 

 glands in ■■.. vvi., xvii., opening separately into oesophagus. No 

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

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

 largi and coiled. Venial seta one to each gland, hooked at th tip 

 and marked throughout tht greater part with fine rin<js ; (it the very 

 tip very slightly pitted. Spermathecce with long muscular duct as 

 longasthi pouch. NeartotTu beginning of tlu muscular duct a rosette 

 of four (M A'' diverticula. Spermatophores present. 



Huh. Kurungu Mts., East Central Africa. 



(2) Benhamia johnstoni, n. sp. 



Sir Harry John-ton, K.C.B., lias 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. 

 1 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 1 

 thought that 1 had before me some larger examples of that species. 

 Nevertheless, ae 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 thai 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 abo\e is of a red-brown, which 

 palea into a yellowish upon the \entral surface. The dorsal 



