1908.] W. MiCHAEiySEN : Oligochceta of the Indian Empire and Ceylon. 245 



— of course the largely peregrine, nearly circummundane Pontoscolex corethrurus (FR. 

 MÜI/Iy.) occurs also in this country. There are only two genera to which the Hima- 

 layan species — which possesses a well-developed gizzard — might belong, viz., the 

 genera Glyphidrilus and Callidrilus. As the genus Callidrilus occurs, as far as we 

 know, only in tropical East Africa, it is not probable that this Himalayan species 

 belongs to that genus. On the other hand, the new locality is easily joined to the 

 other localities in which G/y/JÄz^n'/ws-species are found, viz., Borneo, Celebes, Java, 

 the Malay Peninsula, Burma and (a somewhat isolated species) tropical East Africa. 

 The new locality would in an important degree reduce the great gap between the 

 East African and the Indo-Malayan localities. From a geographical point of view, 

 therefore, I think it probable that the Himalayan species belongs to the genus 

 Glyphidrilus. 



FAM. LUMBRICIDiï:. 

 GEN. EISENIA. 



EiSENiA ROSEA (Say.). 



Hab. — Kashmir, Gurez, Kishanganga River, 6,000-7,000'; H. HAYDEN 

 and Captain R. McCARRISON leg. 



ElSENIA FCETIDA (SaV.). 



Hab.— Western Himalayas, Simla, 7,500'; Mrs. H. D. HENRY and A. 

 PARSONS leg. 

 South India, Shembaganur (near Kodaikanal) in the Palni 



Hills; Dr. J. R. HENDERSON leg., vi-07. 

 ,, ,, Kodaikanal in the Palni Hills, 7,000'; Dr. J, 



R. HENDERSON leg., vi-07. 

 ,, ,, Coonoor in the Nilgiri Hills, 2,000 m. ; 



M. MAINDRON leg., x-oi (Mus. Paris). 



GEN. HElvODRIIvUS. 

 ■Hei.odrii.us (AiivOi^OBOPHORA) CAi^iGiNOSus (Say.). 



F. TYPICA. 



Hab.— Western Himalayas, Simla, 7,500'; Mrs. H. D. HENRY and 

 A. PARSONS leg. 



F. TRAPEzoiDES (Ant. Dug.). 



Hab. — Kashmir, Gilgit, ca. 4,000', Gilgit Road, 8,100' ; Col. A. W. 

 ALrCOCK leg. Gurez, Kishanganga River, 6,000 — 7,000'; H. 

 HAYDEN and Captain R. McCARRISON leg. 

 South India, Ootacamund in the Nilgiri Hills; Col. D. C. 

 PHII.I.OTT leg. 



