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of endemic species in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, but probably not 

 intruding into Australia {Ph. queenslandica , FLBTCH., from Queensland being 

 somewhat doubtful) , certainly not intruding into New Zealand. 



The second Megascolecid branch, well represented in our region, is based upon the 

 genus OdochcBtus of the sub-family Octochœtinœ. A full discussion of the systematic 

 value of the sub-family Octochœtinœ and of its genera will follow below in the chapter on 



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" Oc^ocÄfS^m^ " of the descriptive part. I shall here anticipate the results of that 

 discussion. The phyletically oldest genus of this sub-family, Octochœtus (fig. vi in 

 the text), is represented by eight endemic species in our region. It occupies a some- 



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what longitudinal tract which extends from Bengal and the Central Himalayas in a 

 south-western direction to as far as the southern angle of India, leaving free the north- 

 western part of the empire as well as the districts of the Eastern Himalayas and Bast 



