igoS.] W. M1CHAE1.SEN : Oligochœta of the Indian Empire and Ceylon. 149 



Hab.— Nepal, Gowchar in the Nepal Valley, near Katmandu; 

 R. A. HODGART leg. 



Remarks. — This species comes near to D. uniqua (BOURNE), if it is not identical 

 with it. BOURNE does not make any remarks about a peculiar structure of the 

 atrial sac of the spermathecae (BOURNE' s " copulatory pouch "). He only describes 

 this organ as simple, i.e.^ not divided into two diverging parts as in other species 

 of this genus. I do not believe that BOURNE could have overlooked the above- 

 described very characteristic structure or that he would have abstained from men- 

 tioning it had it been present in his species. 



Drawida BURCHARDI, M1CHI.SN. 



D. &., MICHABLSEN, in Mt. Mus. Hamburg, xix, p. 7. 



Present some specimens, three of which are mature, but without clitellum. 



Hab. — South Andaman Isl., Mount Harriet, 800', in dense forest, a few 

 inches below surface of soil ; B. B. OSMASTON leg., 2-xii-o6. 



Remarks. — I identify these specimens w'th Drawida burchardi, MICHLSN., not- 

 withstanding some small differences. The prostates are thickly tubular, but exter- 

 nally smooth. There are no glands projecting above the surface of the atrium. In the 

 type specimen the prostates are "ziemlich klein, etwa ^ mm. lang und im Maximum 

 ^ mm. dick, zipfe' förmig nach hinten ausgezogen, mit Drüsenbesatz." The greater 

 length of the prostates in the present specimens may correspond with a more com- 

 pletely mature state, and the absence of pear-shaped glands projecting above the surface 

 of the atrium may also depend on another state of sexuality. Very characteristic of 

 this species are the long, slender pear-shaped atrial sacs of the spermathecge in the 

 seventh segment and the long sperm-sac depending backwards from septum 9-10. 



There is a pair of long irregularly bent egg-sacs in the examined specimen. 



D. burchardi is a somewhat peregrine species, having been found also in Sumatra. 



GEN. MONIIvIGASTER. 



By the courtesy of Prof. M. JOUBIN of the ''Museé d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris" 

 I was enabled to re-examine the type specimen of Moniligaster deshayesi, E. PERR., 

 the type species of the genus Moniligaster. A ter this re-examination some points of 

 doubt in the organisation of this species and in the character of this genus may be 

 settled now. Firstly, the female pores may with certainty be assigned to the inter- 

 segmental furrow 11-12. I saw them clearly in M. deshayesi as well as in M. perrieri; 

 in both species they lie in the lines of setae ab. I could not fix the position of the last pair 

 of hearts inM. deshayesi, as I dared not tear the organs of the type specimen more 

 than necessary. There is hardly any doubt that this species is similar to M. perrieri 

 in this point of structure. We may take it for granted that in all the species of Monili- 

 gaster the last hearts are to be found in the 9th segment, the same as in Drawida. If 

 there still remained any doubt about the spermathecal apparatus of Moniligaster 



