igoS.] W. MiCHAELSEN : Oligochceta of the Indian Empire and Ceylon. 147 



Alimentary tract: CE^sophagus simple, without calciferous glands. Three sepa- 

 rate gizzards lying in segments 12 — 14. 



Vascular system: I^ast hearts in the 9th segment. 



Nephridial system meganephric. 



Male organs: A pair of great testicular vesicles suspended at and somewhat 

 restricted by septum 9-10 in segments 9 and 10, the greater part in the latter. 

 A pair of testes and sperm-duct-funnels in these testicular vesicles, inserted in their in- 

 terior walls in the dissepimental zone. Sperm-ducts long, coiled, in segments 9 

 and 10, distally entering the basal front of the prostate in the thickness of the body- 

 wall. The prostates are short tubes with a thick and dense covering of pear-shaped 

 glands ; in consequence of this thick covering the prostates have the appearance of 

 clumsy stumps. The copulatory pouch seems to be missing. The small papilla on 

 the top of which the prostate opens has not the appearance of being an everted copula- 

 tory pouch. 



Female organs: A pair of ovaries in segment 11. A pair of great egg-sacs 

 extending from septum 11-12 backwards through several segments, restricted by the 

 septa. Oviducts short, straight ; funnel of the oviducts rather large, obliquely in- 

 fundibuliform. 



Spermathecse: Main pouch in the 8th segment, with large pear-shaped ampulla 

 and very long, thin, coiled duct. This duct opens from behind into the basal part of 

 the hinder wall of the atrial chamber. The latter is widened to form a small, simple, 

 thickly pear-shaped or stump-shaped atrial sack depending into the 7th segment. 



Hab* — South India, Ramnad in the Madura district, sandy coastal 

 plains ; Dr. N. ANNANDAIvB leg. 



Remarks. — Drawida ramnadana seems to be nearly allied to D. bahamensis 

 (BBDD.) of unknown provenance (certainly imported by man to the Bahamas, if this 

 indeed was the locality from which the " Kew Garden specimens " were derived). It 

 differs from the latter chiefly in the situation of the male pores and of the spermathecal 

 pores, by the absence of distinct copulatory pouches and by the presence of setae on the 

 second segment. Perhaps there is also a difference in the situation of the gizzards. 



Drawida nepai^ensis, Michi^sn. 

 , (Plate xiii, fig. i.) 



? Moniligaster uniqims + M. papillatus, BOURNE, in Proc. Zool. Soc, 1887, pp. 671, 672. 

 ? Moniligaster uniqua, BOURNE, in O. Journ. micr. Sei., N. S., xxxvi, p. 363, t. 23, f. 4. 

 Drawida nepalensis, n. sp. (?), MICHAEL,SEN, in Mt. Mus. Hamburg, xxiv, p. 146. 



Present some partly mature specimens of a species which may perhaps prove to 

 be identical with D. uniqua (BOURNE). 



External Characters. — Dimensions: Length 50 — 60mm. [D. uniqua: living 

 animals (?), 220 mm.), thickness 3^ mm. {D. uniqua: nearly 5 mm.), number of seg- 

 ments 160 — 175 {D. uniqua: 316). 



Colour yellowish grey; apparently without pigmentation. 



