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NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN EARTHAVORMS, 
RA, 
Cryptodrilus (?) UNicus, n.sp. to the 
Twenty spirit specimens from 3-3 (juv.) to 9 ‘5 cm. k 
3-6 mm. broad; number of segments 112-150. 
Colour above purplish or reddish-brown, lighter below. Pros- 
tomium divides buccal ring only slightly (about one third). Seg- 
ments after the first few biannulate, or with one of the annuli 
again subdivided. Body noticeably depressed in all the specimens, 
canaliculate throughout dorsally in the median line with a fine 
impressed line commencing on the prostomium, interrupted at the 
dorsal pores. 
Set® in eight longitudinal rows ; the first from the median line 
and the second from the first at about equal di-stances ; intervals 
between the second and third, and third and fourth about equal, 
and double that between the first and second. The inner couples 
on segment xviii not visible. 
Clitellum of four complete segments, xiv-xvii, complete all 
round but not so thick as to obliterate the intersegmental grooves 
in any of the specimens. 
Male pore single, on a papilla on xviii in the median line. 
Oviduct pores two, in front and just dorsad of the innermost 
setie on xiv : spermathecal pores five, intersegmental, in a single 
median series commencing after segment iv. 
Nephridiopores : a pair on the anterior margins of the segments 
except the first one, the first two or three pairs a little dorsad of, 
the rest opposite, the fourth setae. Dorsal pores commence after 
segment v. 
Alimentary canal; gizzard in v or at; the portions of the 
intestine in segments ix or x to xii more or less dilated ; in xill-xv 
there are three pairs of diverticula, the middle pair largest, those 
(<i each pair reaching almost from the median dorsal to nearly the 
median ventral line of the canal, incompletely pinched off, not 
communicating Avith it by a duct ; the sacculated large intestine 
commencing about xati. 
