900 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON THE [DeC. 4, 



reality a group of 9-11 small circular papilla? apparently very like 

 those of A. aspergillum. They are disposed in two slightly curved 

 lines, one in front of and one behind the line of setae. The whole 

 area upon which they are borne is not only raised above the area 

 of the surrounding integument, but is slightly different in colour. 

 In one case only the lowest left-hand papillae merely consisted of 

 the raised area without an indication of the separate papilla? upon 

 it. 



The male pores are very large and conspicuous, the orifice is 

 much wrinkled. There are about fourteen seta? between the 

 pores. 



Dorsal pores are present. 



The gizzard of this species shows, more plainly than I have 

 observed in other species of the genus, a disposition of the blood- 

 vessels of the gizzard which has been figured and described in 

 other genera. There are about 8 parallel vessels on each side of 

 the gizzard which run from end to end of that organ. In the 

 gizzard-segments also, which are undivided by a septum, two strong 

 lateral blood-vessels run one on each side ; anteriorly each gives off 

 a very strong and much-branched twig to the body-wall. The last 

 heart is in segment xii. 



The intestine has no oceca. 



There appear to be three pairs of sperm-sacs in segments x., xi., 

 and xii. Those of the tenth and of the twelfth segments are much 

 smaller than those of the eleventh ; but in every case they nearly or 

 quite meet each other above the oesophagus. In the tenth segment 

 the sperm-sacs swell out below into the sperm-reservoirs, which 

 lodge 'the anterior pair of vas deferens funnels. These reservoirs 

 are not fused together below though they come into contact; 

 Their dorsal extension must, as it appears to me, be regarded as 

 an anterior pair of sperm-sacs. 



The spermiducal glands are squarish in outline and occupy 

 segments xvii.-xix. Their duct leaves them as nearly as possible 

 exactly in the middle ; it is quite slender and is curved back upon 

 itself in a horseshoe-like form ; there is no terminal sac, the 

 presence of which might possibly be inferred by the large size of 

 the male pore. 



A moderately large pair of egg-saes are appended to the front 

 wall of segment xiii. They are transversely elongated. 



The spermatJiecas are constituted upon the plan of those of 

 A. stelleri, and occupy the same segments as do the spermatheca? 

 of that species. There are in fact in segments vi. and vii. 8 to 10 

 spermatheca? on each side in each segment. Each spermatheca is 

 pear-shaped, lessening gradually in calibre towards the duct ; it has 

 a diverticulum of about half its own length which is slender. The 

 diverticulum has the form that has been noted in A. stelleri ; there 

 is a marked constriction between the swollen end of the diverti- 

 culum and another swollen region which gradually diminishes in 

 calibre to the duct. 



Hah. Aring, Kelantan. 



