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Female pores paired, ventrally on the intersegmental furrow between segments 

 II and 12. 



Internal Anatomy, — Small bodies in segment 9 suspended ventrally at the 

 septum 8-9 like a supernumerary pair of testes , but there are no other supernumerary 

 reproductive organs. 



Great sperm- sacs and egg- sacs extend through a great number of segments. 



Oviduct short, straight ; funnel of oviduct infundibuliform, with thick walls. 



The mature specimen at my disposal bore a single spermatophore ventrally 

 at the hinder part of the eleventh segment if not on the intersegmental furrow 11-12. 

 The shape of this spermatophore differed somewhat from BBDDARD's figure of this 

 object (loc. cit., p. 84, text-fig. 10). Its peduncle is much shorter than the main body 

 and is divided into some branches which enter between the cells of the hypoderm. 

 The narrower distal prolongation of the spermatophore is on the contrary somewhat 

 longer than in the specimen of BBDDARD. 



In all other respects the specimen from the Himalayas agrees with those from the 

 Malayan Peninsula. 



Hab, — Bastern Himalayas, Kurseong in the Darjiling district, 5,000', 



in a rotten stick from the bottom of a small artificial pool ; Dr. N. 



ANN AND ABB leg. 



Remarks.— Dr. N. ANN AND ABB writes to me : " The original locality of 



Bothrioneuron iris does not appear to have been given exactly. The type specimens 



were taken by Dr. R. BVANS and myself in a little pool on the top of the hill 



Bukit Besar (alt. 3,500 feet), which lies on the border of the states of Jalor 



(Yäla) and Nawngchik in Siamese Malaya (approximately in lat. 6°^8' N., long. 



ioi°io' B.). 



FAM. MONILIGASTRID^. 



Among the rich collections from the Palni Hills made by Dr. J. R. HBNDBRSON 

 there were some well-preserved specimens which belong to a species without doubt 

 very nearly allied to Moniligaster deshayesi, PBRRIBR,^ the type species not only of 

 the genus Moniligaster but also of the whole family Moniligastridœ. The examina- 

 tion of the new species, which I dedicate to the author of this interesting genus, throws 

 a fresh light upon some hitherto obscure points in the anatomy of the type species 

 Moniligaster deshayesi and therefore upon the genus Moniligaster and its relations to 

 the other genera of the M oniligastridœ. To be even more sure in my conclusions about 

 the characters of the genus Moniligaster, I asked Prof. B. PBRRIBR and Prof . 

 M. JOUBIN for the type specimen of M. deshayesi, which was entrusted to me 

 for re-examination. I use this occasion to express once more my heartiest thanks to 

 these gentlemen. As I supposed, M. deshayesi agrees with the new species, M. 

 fer fieri, in all essential points of generic value as regards anatomy. 



Firstly it may be stated that the genus Moniligaster , in the arrangement of the 



' E. PERRIER, Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des Lombriciens terrestres ; in Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. Paris, vol, viii, 1872, p. 130; pi. iv, figs. 77 — 84. 



