igoS.] W. M1CHAE1.SEN : Oligochœta of the Indian Empire and Ceylon. 179 



The original home of the widespread type species L. mauritii is unknown. As the 

 two other species of this genus are endemic in the southern part of India, and as 

 L. mauritii has been found there as well, we may assume that S. India is the original 

 home of the latter also. 



Lampito mauritii, Kinb. 



Megascolex mauritii, MICHAELSEN, Oligochaeta, in Tierreich, lyief. 10, p. 227. 

 For synonymy and literature see " Megascolecinae," p. 153. 



Hab. — South India, Ramnad in the Madura distr., sandy coastal plains; 



Dr. N. ANNANDALE leg. 

 „ ,, Pondicherry in the South Arcot district, M. 



MAINDRON leg. (Mus. Paris). 

 ,, ,, Madras (Numgumbaukum, Kilpauk, Peoples' Park, 



Pursevaukann, Museum Grounds, Egmore, Spur 

 Tank and Red Hills) ; E. THURSTON leg. 

 „ ,, Madras (Egmore, Mylapore, Kooum, Choolaie, Roya- 



purum and Mackay's Gardens ; Capt. W. S. PATTON 

 leg. 

 Deccan, Hyderabad; Col. D. C. PHIIylvOTT leg. 

 Bombay Presidency, Gujerat, Godhra; W. S. MII^I^ARD leg. 

 Punjab, Ivahore; Major J. STEPHENSON leg. 



Bengal, Ranigunj in the Burdwan district; ly. I^. FERMOR leg. 

 „ Calcutta; Dr. N. ANNANDAEE leg., 29— 30-V-06. 



„ Bhogaon, Purneah; C. A. PAIVA leg. 



Rajshahi; Major A. R. S. ANDERSON leg. 

 „ Saraghat; Dr. N. ANNANDAXE leg., 29— 30-vi-o6 and 



3-xii-03. 

 „ Betracona in the Mymensing district; H. E. STAPIyE- 



TONleg. 



LaMPITO VII.PATTIENSIS, MlCHLSN. 



(Plate xiii, fig. 18.) 



I. v., MICHAELSEN, in Mt. Mus. Hamburg, xxiv, p. 160, f. 8. 

 Present a great number of specimens. 



External Characters. — Dimensions of mature specimens: Length 70 — 90 

 mm., greatest thickness 2 — 2^ mm., number of segments 154 — 178. 



Colour uniformly light grey ; without pigmentation. 

 ' Head indistinctly epilobous [ca. f) ; hinder appendix of prostomium small, often 

 equalling the walls between the longitudinal furrows, which occupy the anterior part 

 of the ist segment. 



Setae at the ends of the body distinctly enlarged, ventrally more than dorsally. 

 Circles of setae regularly interrupted at the ventral and dorsal median lines 



