1922. j J. Stephenson: Earthivorms from Kashmir & India. 437 



The female pore or pores are indicated by a small midventral 

 depression on the anterior part of segm. xiv. 



The sperm athecal pores are two pairs, on 

 minute papillae close to the middle line, the 

 least trifle in front of the setal zones of segms. 

 viii and ix. 



Septum 5/6 is somewhat strengthened ; the 

 next is 8/9, slightly thickened ; 9/10, 10/11, and 

 11/12 are somewhat strengthened, 12/13 very 

 slightly so, and the rest are thin. 



Previous statements regarding the absence of 

 penial setae appear to be mistaken. There was 

 very little to indicate their presence ; but an 

 endeavour to isolate and mount the sac was 

 successful in revealing one. This was very 

 small, *6 mm. long, and 13M thick at its middle ; 

 the shaft has a slight double curve, and the tip 

 is fairly sharply pointed ; the ornamentation 

 consists of a few irregular indentations of the 

 margin near the free end (fig. 2). No eopula- 

 tory setae from the spermathecal segments could 

 be obtained. 



Fig. 2. — Octocliae- 



tus beatrix ; penial 



seta : X460. 



Genus Erythraeodrilus Steph. 



Erythraeodrilus kcmpi var. bifoveatus (Steph.)* 



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



I accept Michaelsen's recent separation of this and allied 

 species from the genus Hoplochaelella, and their union with Erythra- 

 eodrilus (7). It now seems to me that the difference between 

 the two species that I formerly described separately as kempi and 

 bifoveata (10) is scarcely sufficiently marked to justify their being 

 kept apart. 



Genus Eutyphoeus Mich. 

 Eutyphoeus orientalis (Bedd). 



Dehra Dun; compound of Forest Research Institute (serial No. m of 

 27'viii"i92i). 



This species, obtained from near Calcutta by Beddard and 

 from Dehra Dun by Fedarb, has not been seen since 1898. It is 

 interesting to find it now in a batch of worms from Dehra Dun, 

 one of the previously recorded localities. The following details 

 may be noted : — 



On segm. xvii are a pair of grooves or cracks, shaped like 

 square brackets — [ ] — overhung on their outer side by a thick- 

 ened ridge; the male pores, with penial setae projecting, are in 

 the posterior corners of the brackets. The longitudinal part of the 

 grooves, and the pores themselves, are a little outside the line of 

 setae b. 



