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The gizzard is well developed, ovoid, situated in segment v. There are no 
calcareous glands. The intestine begins in xix, behind the prostates. 
The last heart is in xiii. 
There are numerous small micronephridia. 
Testes were not identified ; from the presence of iridescent masses in x and xi, 
they and the funnels are doubtless contained in these segments. The vesiculae sem- 
inales, comparatively small, racemose in form, depend from septa 10/11 and 11/12 
into segments xi and xii. 
The prostates, in xviii, are relatively small; they form somewhat flattened masses, 
roughly circular in outline, and are much cut up into small lobes tightly compacted” 
together. The duct is relatively stout, shining, almost straight, its terminal portion 
slightly widened. 
The female organs have the usual position. 
The spermathecae (fig. 29) are two pairs, in segments vili and ix. The ampulla 
is elongated and cylindrical, and passes without sharp demarcation into the duct, 
which is as long as the ampulla. The diverticulum, given off from the duct where it 
enters the body-wall, is elongated and club-shaped; and lying alongside the duct, it 
reaches as far as the base of the ampulla. 
There are no penial setae. 
Megascolex filiciseta, sp. nov. 
(Plate IX, figs. 30-31.) 
Parambikulam, 1700—3000 ft., Cochin State ; 15—24-ix-1914 (F. H. Gravely). Three specimens. 
External characters —Length 63-70 mm., diameter 2-3 mm.; colour dorsally bluish 
grey behind, purplish in front, a purplish tinge also at the extreme posterior end, 
ventrally a slaty grey; a fine dark mid-dorsal stripe, better marked posteriorly. 
Segments IIS. 
Prostomium epilobous +, dorsal process delimited behind by a transverse groove, 
the process itself marked by a median groove. 
The first dorsal pore is in groove 5/6. 
The setal rings are broken dorsally ; zz = 2yz,—a little less (I$yz, in the most 
anterior segments, a little more (3yz) for some distance behind the genital region. 
Ventrally the ring is closed in the anterior segments as far back as x1: the interval 
soon becomes and remains of moderate extent ,—aa = 24ab; a seems as a rule smaller 
than the other setae, and ab on the average less than bc. The setae are not arranged 
in regular longitudinal lines. The numbers are 33/v, 41/ix, 18 +10/xii, 20 +22/xix, 
and in the middle of the body 36 or 38. 
The clitellum extends perhaps over xiv—xvi=3; it was only marked by the 
presence of a little flocculent mucus between the cuticle and the epidermis. 
The male apertures are inconspicuous, on very small porophores, on segment xviii, 
between the lines a and b. The regular circle of setae begins outside the porophores 
with seta c. 
