1922.] J. Stephenson: Earthworms from Kashmir & India. 433 



The spermathecae are small sacs sessile on the body-wall, 

 without duct. There is a single diverticulum, narrow and tubular, 

 as long as or not quite so long as the ampulla ; it arises from the 

 inner side of the sac where it joins the body-wall. 



There are no penial setae. 



Genus Pheretima Kirb. em. Mich. 

 Pheretima elongata (E. Perr. ). 

 Bombay. Coll. Prof. J. P. Mullan. 



Pheretima hawayana (Rosa). 



Dehra Dun; compound of the Forest Research Institute (serial no. in 

 of 2 7 - v i i i • 1921). 



Pheretima heterochaeta (Mich.). 



Sariya Tal, about three miles from Naini Tal to the west, and at a 

 lower level than Naini Tal ; from underneath stone on the banks of 

 the lake. A single specimen. Dr. B. Prashad. 



Cherrapunji, Assam ; under stones and in muddy pools around Dak 

 Bungalow. 28*X'I92I. S. L. Hora. Several specimens. 



Two of the latter batch of specimens showed certain abnor- 

 malities, which led to my examining them more closeby. 



In one specimen, the number of segments counted on the 

 dorsal surface was one greater than those seen ventrally ; this 

 was due to the presence of a spiral groove in the anterior part 

 of the body. There were other spiral abnormalities further back, 

 behind the genital region. The clitellum was incomplete on the 

 right side from above the lateral line of the body to the midven- 

 tral line; it embraced segments xiv-xvi. The male pore was on 

 xviii on the left side, and on xx on the right. There was a papilla 

 midventrally situated on xvii. Internally, and reckoning by the 

 segments seen on the dorsal surface (the above appearances are 

 described as seen from the ventral surface), the spermathecae are 

 situated between segms. 6/7, 7/8, 8/9 and 9/10 ; that in 7/8 on 

 the right side has a double ampulla with a single duct and diver- 

 ticulum ; the last heart is in segm. xiv. Seminal vesicles are 

 present in xii, xiii and xiv on the right side, and in xii and xiii on 

 the left. Ovaries and their funnels are present in xiv on the left, 

 and in xiv, xv, xvi and xvii on the right. The prostate of the 

 right side is absent ; the male duct ends in xxi. 



In the other specimen there were two male pores on the 

 right side, on segms. xviii and xix, each smaller than normal. 

 Internally, the prostate was small on the left side, and there was 

 none on the right. On the right side, both vasa deferentia were 

 continued into the anterior prostatic duct ; there was a second 

 prostatic duct in xix, but unconnected with the vasa deferentia. 

 The right, anterior prostatic duct was slightly stouter than the 

 one behind it. 



