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not find in any of my specimens ; — " In somites xxiii-xxvi (?) there are four pairs of 

 special diverticula on the dorso-lateral portions of the intestine." In the example of 

 the Daman Road batch which I dissected I noted that the segmental swellings and 

 intersegmental constrictions of the intestine were very marked dorso-laterally in its 

 anterior part ; and from about segment xxiii onwards for ten or a dozen segments 

 there were very distinct lateral (not however dorso-lateral) sacculi, but their extent 

 was rather indefinite. I did not, in my previous paper, consider the feature as of 

 generic significance ; still it is perhaps some slight confirmation of my identification 

 to find something similar (though not quite identical) in a worm which certainly be- 

 longs to the same group as those I there described. 



Genus Octochaetus. 

 Octochaetus barkudensis, Stephenson. 



Barkuda Island, Chilka Lake, Ganjani Dist., Madras Pres. ; at base of tree. 25-vii-1917 to 4- 

 viii-1917. N. Annandale. Four specimens. 



Same locality, date, and collector. Under stones on shore of island. One larger and a number 

 of smaller specimens. 



The papillae on segment viii may be joined in the middle line, and so appear as 

 a dumbbell-shaped thickening. 



In addition to the median oval papilla on segment xxii there may be a similar 

 one on xxi. 



Octochaetus fermori, Mchlsn. 



Dhanu, a little distance N. of Bombay. 7-VÜ-1917. B. Prashad. Several specimens, imma- 

 ture. 



Surat, W. India. 8-vii-1917. B. Prashad. Several specimens. 



Ahmedabad, W. India, ll-vii-1917. B. Prashad. Several specimens. 



Baroda, W. India ; by the banks of a tank. 9-VÜ-1917. B. Prashad. A single specimen. 



Same place ; on a small hillock. 10-vii-191/\ B. Prashad. One specimen, with perhaps two 

 others, immature. 



Gwalior, Central India ; bank of a stream. 17-vi-1917. B. Prashad. Five specimens. 



Same place ; under flower-pots. 17-vi-1917. B. Prashad. A single specimen, rather imma- 

 , ture. 



Octochaetus paliensis, sp. nov. 

 Plate X, figs. 30-33. 

 Palia, between Indore and Ujjain, Central India. 27-vi-l917. B. Prashad. A single speci- 

 men, not in good condition. 



Indore, Central India. 23-vi-1917. B. Prashad. Several specimens. 

 Poona. 3-vii-1917. B. Prashad. Two specimens, one smaller, not fully mature. 

 Bina, Central Provinces. 19-vi-1917. B. Prashad. A single specimen. 

 The description which follows is of the specimen from Palia, the one which was 

 first examined. A few differences in the Poona specimens and in the one from Bina 

 will be mentioned subsequently. 



External Characters: — Length 45 mm.; diameter 275 mm. Colour yellowish 

 grey, not darker on the dorsal surface ; clitellum browner. Segments 141. 



