8A Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Vor VE 
The female aperture is single on xiv, appearing as a small depression about the 
middle of the length of the segment. 
The spermathecal apertures are one pair, in furrow 8/0; they are fairly widely 
separated, perhaps about } circumference (the injury to the specimen prevents an 
exact computation). 
A thickened genital area includes nearly all the ventral surface of segment viil. 
This area is limited anteriorly by the furrow 7/8; its lateral limits are also definite; 
but posteriorly, where it extends on to the anterior part of ix, its hinder margin 
is not well defined. The spermathecal apertures are near the lateral limits of this 
atea. A pair of slightly darker oval, almost circular, patches, in the posterior half of 
viii, are included in this area; the patches are not raised above the general surface; 
the outer border of each is in line with the spermathecal aperture. 
Internal anatomy.—Iam unableto state whether any septa exist in front of 6/7 ; from 
this level backwards all are present, and all as far as about 13/14 are slightly thickened. 
The subspherical gizzard is in vi. The intestine begins in xix. No calcareous 
glands were seen. 
The last heart is in xiii. 
The excretory system is micronephridial. 
Large transversely elongated funnels are present in x and xi. The seminal 
vesicles, in xi and xii, are lobulated, and those of a pair meet dorsally over the ali- 
mentary canal. | 
The prostates, of moderate size, are flattened and compact in appearance, and 
occupy xvii and xviii. The duct is shining, moderately stout, almost straight, and 
of equal diameter throughout. 
Ovaries and funnels are present in xiii. ; 
The spermathecae (fig. 20) are a single pair. The ampulla is of an elongated 
ovoid shape; the duct is short and relatively wide,—}—+ as wide as the ampulla; 
the single diverticulum is finger-like and about as broad as the duct, from which it 
arises near its termination at the body-wall; in length the diverticulum is two-fifths 
of the conjoined ampulla and duct. 
There are no penial setae. 
Remarks.—The present species appears to be related to MW. willeyi (Michaelsen, 
Io, 12); from which however it is distinguished by the setae, the number and form 
of the spermathecae, the character of the genital areas, and the absence of penial setae. 
Megascolex kempi, sp. nov. 
(Plate VIII, fig. 21.) 
Horton Plains, 7000 ft., Ceylon; under stones and logs; Dec., 1913 (S. W. Kemp). A single 
specimen. 
External characters.—Length 44 mm., diameter 2 mm.; colour grey, clitellum 
rather lighter than the rest. Segments 115. 
Prostomium prolobous. Dorsal surface flattened, with a slight groove along the 
middle in the middle and posterior thirds, 
