998 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON A. [DeC. 18, 



does not enable us to add any details of structure to what we 

 already know from Yerrill. 



The specimens hitherto known of this animal, all more or less 

 imperfect, are three in number, and were all found at Cnalaska 

 by -Mr. W. H. Dall, in April and May 1872. They are referred 

 to by their discoverer as perhaps identical with Onychoteuthis bergi, 

 in a note on large Cuttlefish in the 'American Naturalist,' vol. vii. 

 p. 484 (1873). They were afterwards described by Yerrill (with 

 the aid of Mr. Dall's notes) as Ommastrephes robustus (Dall, MSB.), 

 in the l American Journal of Science,' vol. xii. p. 236 (1870), and 

 again as Onychoteuthis robustus (Dall, MSS.) in the 'Transactions 

 of the Connecticut Academy,' vol. v. p. 240 (1879). Verrill, though 

 describing the animal as a species of Onychoteuthis, pointed out that 

 the pen with its solid terminal cone agreed with that of Ancistro- 

 teuihig, Dosidicus, or Lestoteuthis. He closes his discussion as 

 follows : " So far as we can judge, with our present imperfect data, 

 the relationship of 0. rohustus appears to be rather with Lestoteuthis 

 than with any other known group. It is possible, however, that 

 its affinities may prove to be closer with Ancistroteuthis, when the 

 armature is discovered." In 1881, Steenstrup, in his paper on 

 Sthenoteuthis and Lestoteuthis (Overs. Vid.-Selsk. Kjbb. 1881, p. 19), 

 pointed out that the animal could not possibly belong to Yerrill's 

 Lestoteuthis, with its four series of suckers on the arms, and 

 expressed his opinion that it belonged to Ancistroteuthis. The 

 tentacular club now described confirms this identification, insomuch 

 as it is identical with the clubs of Ancistroteuthis and Onychoteuthis, 

 which two genera are sufficiently discriminated by the characters 

 of the pen. 



5. On a new Species of Earthworm from India belonging to 

 the Genus Amyntas. By Frank E. Beddard, M.A., 

 F.R.S. 



[Received Xoveinber 20, 1900.] 



Having just attempted a revision of the genus Amyntas ' it may 

 seem early to add a new species to that now rather well-known 

 genus. Nevertheless I cannot place an earthworm, which I 

 received too late for incorporation into that revision, and which is 

 a native of India, among any of the known species of Amyntas. 

 It came to me, through the kindness of Mr. Nicholson, from Kew 

 Gardens, where it had been imported from the neighbourhood of 

 Calcutta. 



I shall give it a name and explain in the course of my description 

 the reasons which lead me to regard it as a new, or at any rate not 

 fully-described, species. Unfortunately 1 had only a single 

 example at my disposal, which, however, was alive and could be 

 therefore carefully preserved. 



1 P. Z. S. 1900, p. 609. 



