1920.] J. Stephenson: Oligochaetafrom India and E. Persia. 223 



Namkana, Sunderbans, Bengal ; near the banks of a reclaimed island. 10-xi-1918. B. Pra- 

 shad. Several specimens. 



Calcutta. Nov. 1913. E. C. Dormieux. A single specimen. 



The length of the specimens from Manmad (the only ones subjected to a complete 

 examination) varied ; a long one was as much as 230 mm. 



Large testis sacs, enclosing alimentary canal, hearts, and dorsal vessel, as well as 

 the testes and funnels, were present in segments x and xi; and seminal vesicles in xi, 

 xii and xiii, as noted by previous observers. The seminal vesicles of xi are contained 

 within the testis sac of that segment ; those of xii are large, and meet mid-dorsally ; 

 those of xiii are small and rounded. 



It may be noted that the last heart was in segment xii, in the specimen dissec- 

 ted. I found no spermathecae (this condition has previously been noted in the spe- 

 cies). 



Remarks : — This worm has not hitherto passed for common in India. It was re- 

 corded from three localities by Michaelsen (3) as a result of his examination of the 

 extensive collection of the Indian Museum, — from Hyderabad, Deccan ; Kandy in 

 Ceylon ; and Karachi in Sind. I had not myself met with it previously. Like others 

 of the genus, the present species has a wide distribution outside India — indeed it 

 might be called a " world-wanderer." 



The worm has generally gone under the name of P. biserialis ; Michaelsen was 

 able, by an examination of the types of P. elongata, to establish its identity with the 

 latter (4). 



Pheretima lignicola, Stephenson. 



Bombay. June. 1915. N. B. Kinnear. Several specimens, not all mature. 

 Bombay. 7-xi-1914. N. B. Kinnear A number of specimens. 



The colour appears to be variable ; olive-green and brown have been noted in 

 previous specimens ; these, — the first of the two batches at least, — were a metallic 

 bluish purple dorsally, and pinkish ventrally. 



The setae of segments ii-ix were larger than those on the rest of the body. The 

 intestinal caeca were crenulated on their dorsal margin. 



Subfam. OCTOCHAETINAE. 

 Genus- Hoplochaetella. 

 Hoplochaetella anomala, sp. nov. 

 Plate X, figs. 25-29. 



Belgaum. Bombay Pres. 5-vi-1910. N. B. Kinnear. Eight specimens, and a fragment con- 

 sisting of the posterior end. In bad condition. 



External Characters : — Length about 85 mm. ; diameter 3 mm. The worms are 

 apparently unpigmented or almost so ; in their present condition, with much thinned 

 body- walls, the colour is given by the intestinal contents. Segments ça. 105. 



Prostomium epilobous I, tongue broad, sides slightly converging behind, not cut 

 off by a transverse furrow. 



