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broadly tongue-shaped, not compact, but much, and in parts rather deeply, incised 

 at the margin and furrowed at the surface. The duct is rather thick and short, 

 hardly as long as the glandular part, quite straight, muscular. 



There are no penial setae. 



Female organs : A pair of tuft-like ovaries depend from septum 12-13 into 

 the 13th segment. A pair of organs of similar appearance (egg-sacs ?) are found in a 

 corresponding position in the 14th segment. 



Spermathecse (fig. 23) : The main pouch consists of an oblong, somewhat 

 flattened, sac-shaped ampulla and an abruptly set-off muscular duct about a third 

 as long and thick as the ampulla. Into the proximal end of this duct opens an oblong 

 diverticulum hanging downwards and pressed against the duct of the main pouch. The 

 diverticulum is about half as long as the duct of the main pouch and much thinner. It 

 is indistinctly stalked and contains in the distal two- thirds some (3 — 5) partly oval, 

 partly more globular seminal chambers which cause by their flatulence, — being filled 

 with sperm masses, — rounded swellings projecting above the general surf ace of the 

 diverticulum. 



Habt — South India, Tiger Shola (near Kodaikanal) in the Palni Hills, 

 5,500' ; Dr. J. R. HENDERSON leg., vi-07. .. 



MEGASCOI.EX FUNIS, MICHI.SN. 



(Plate xiii, fig. 24.) 

 M. f., MICHAEIvSEN, in Mt. Mus. Hamburg, xiv, p. 210, t. f, f. 2. 

 Present a single specimen without hinder end. 

 Hab,— Ceylon, Kandy, Col. D. C. PHII^I^OTT leg. 



Remarks. — The present specimen resembles in nearly all respects the type 

 specimens of this species. Only in the shape of the spermathecse there seemed at 

 first to be an important difference. A re-examination of the type specimens, how- 

 ever, showed that this apparent difference was not very great. The type specimens 

 are doubtless somewhat less mature than the new one collected by Col. PHII^LOTT. 

 In the latter the diverticula of the spermathecse (fig. 24) are relatively, very much 

 larger than in the type specimens, being about three-quarters as long and as thick 

 as the main pouch. After preparing it in acetic acid, it proved to be not a simple 

 tube or sack, as may have been expected from my original description. The prox- 

 imal part for about f of the entire length is somewhat enlarged, and its lumen 

 is not simple. The lumen consists of a great number of somewhat pear-shaped or 

 globular seminal chambers, partly united at the base in twos, threes or fours, all of them 

 opening into a central channel, which leads down through the distal part of the 

 diverticulum and finally opens into the distal end of the main pouch. A re- 

 examination of the spermathecse of the type-specimens convinced me that their 

 diverticulum possesses the same complex structure, though notperhaps quite as complex 

 as that of the new specimen, the number of seminal chambers being a little smaller; 



