SOME EARTHWORMS FROM KASHMIR, BOJOAY, AND 

 OTHER PARTS OF INDIA. 



By J. Stephenson, M.B., D.Sc, Lecturer in Zoology in the 

 University of Edinburgh. 



Contents. 



Pa s» 



I lie Earthworms of Kashmir ... ... ... ... 428 



The Range of the Lumbricinae ... ... ... 428 



The Polyphyletic Origin of the genus Megascolex ... . ... ... 429 



Some other species of interest ... ... ... ... 430 



Systematic Part. 



Family Moniligastridae. 



Drawida nepalensis Mich. ... ... ... ... 430 



Drawida rosea sp. now ... ... ... ... 430 



Family Megascolecidae. 

 Subfamily Megascolecinae. 



Megascolex konkanensis Fedarb ... ... ... 431 



Megascolex manritii (Kinb.) ... ... ... ... 432 



Megascolex horai sp. nov. ... ... ... ... 432 



Pheretima elongata (E. Ferr.) ... ... ... ... 433 



Pheretima hawayana (Rosa) ... ... ... ... 433 



Plieretima heterochaeta (Mich.) ... ... ... 433 



Pheretima houlleW (E. Perr.) ... ... ... ... 434 



Pheretima posthuma (L. Vaill.) ... ... ... 434 



Pheretima suctoria (Mich.) ..; ... ... ... 434 



Perionyx excavatus E. Perr. ... ... ... ... 435 



Perionyx modestus sp. nov. ... ... ... ... 435 



Subfamily Octochactinae. 



Octocliaetus beatrix Uecld. ... ... ... ... 436 



Erylhracdrilus k'empi var. bifoveatus (Sttqjh.). ... ... 437 



Eutyphoeus orientalis (Bedd.) ... ... ... ... 437 



Entyphoeus waltoni Mich. ... ... ... ... 438 



Eudichogasler mullani sp. nov. ... ... ... 438 



Family l.umbricidae. 



Subfamily Glossoscolecinae. 



Pontoscolex corethrurus (Fr. Mull ) ... ... ... 440 



Subfamily Lumbricinae. 



Helodrilns (Allolobophora) caliginosits subsp. trapezoides (Ant. 



Dug.) ... ... ... ... ... 440 



Helodrilus {Allolobophora) prashadi sp. nov. ... ... 440 



Helodrilns (Dendrobaena) kempi sp. nov. ... ... ... 441 



Helodrilus (fiimastus) constrictus (Rosa) . . . ... ... 44 2 



Helodrilus (Bimastus) parvus (Eisen) ... ... ... 442 



Octolasium lacteum (Orley) ... ... ... ... 443 



The present paper contains an account of some Oligochaeta 

 recently received for identification from the Indian Museum. In 

 part these have been collected by the officers of the Zoological 

 Survey, and in part sent tothe Museum by other naturalists, — Prof. 

 J. J. Asana of Ahmedabad and Prof. J. P. Mullan of Bombay. 

 The collection of the last-named contained some interesting 

 specimens. 



