146 Memoirs of the Indian Museum. [Voi,. I, 



Drawida willsi comes near to the somewhat doubtful species Moniligaster japoni- 

 Cî*s (MICHIySN.)/ which also possesses only two gizzards. Butin the latter species 

 the gizzards occupy the 12th and 13th segments, a point which I may be able to 

 confirm after a renewed examination of a sedes of sections. From the only other 

 species — Moniligaster minutus, BOURNE ^ — which possesses two (sometimes three) 

 gizzards, Drawida willsi is easily distinguished by the simple pear-shaped atrial 

 chamber of the spermathecse (divided into two parts in D. minuta). 



To this species probably, or rather doubtless, belongs a single small, not yet mature 

 specimen from Simla in the Western Himalayas. This specimen possesses two gizzards, 

 like the type specimens of D. willsi, but as it is not yet mature, this cannot be deter- 

 mined with certainty. The specimen is remarkable for its brilliant blue colouring; 

 but as the colour in the species of this family, as also in those of other families, is vari- 

 able, we dare not lay any stress upon it. 



Drawida ramnadana, Michi^sn. 



D. r., MICHAElvSEN, in Mt. Mus. Hamburg, xxiv, p. 145. 



I examined several weakened sexually mature specimens. 



External Characters,— Dimensions of the sexually mature specimens : 

 I^ength 44 — 55 mm., greatest thickness if — 2 mm., number of segments ca. 165. 



Colour in the fore part dorsally and laterally bluish grey, in the other part 

 yellowish grey. 



Head prolobous. 



Setae minute, strictly paired, the median ventral distance somewhat smaller 

 than the lateral distances {aa<bc), the median dorsal distance somewhat greater than 

 half the circumference of the body {dd>\u). Setae missing only from the first segment, 

 present on the second. 



Dorsal pores not seen. 



Nephridial pores in the lines of the lateral setae (in cd). 



Clitellum developed all round the body, occupying segments 10 — 13 ( =4). 



Male pores intersegmentally on the furrow between segments 10 and 11 in the 

 lines of the setae b, on small eye-shaped papillae. 



Female pores on the intersegmental furrow 11-12, if not somewhat behind it, 

 in the lines of the setae ah or near them (seen only in sections). 



Spermathecal pores on the boundary line between segments 7 and 8 inline 

 with the setae h. - 



Internal Anatomy. — Septa 5-6 — 8-9 thickened, 9-10 and lo-ii laterally 

 and dorsally inserted further behind than ventrally, especially lo-ii, which is dorsally 

 inserted in the middle of segment 11. 



^ W. MICHAELSEN, Terricolen der Berliner zoologischen Sammlung, ii ; in Arch. Naturg., Iviii, 

 p. 232. 



î* A. G. BOURNE, On Indian Earthworms, Part I. Preliminary notice of Earthworms from the 

 Nilgiris and Shevaroys; in Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1886, p. 672. 



