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gaster sp. As these worms come from Sumatra and the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, he considers it likely that the tickets of localities got mixed up. 



Dichogaster sylvatica, Hebdier (?) 



Dr Benham states that the occurrence of this Australian species 

 is incidentally referred to by Ude (1893), where he mentions that in 

 a letter to him from Dr Rosa, the latter refers to a "variety from New 

 Zealand." The specimens Ude was examining were from Australia. 



Family Eudrilid^se 



Eudrilus eugeniee, Kinberg 



Mr W. W. Smith reports this species as occurring in Taranaki. 

 Dr Benham, however, who is extremely doubtful of its occurrence, 

 says: 



I cannot find any statement in any writer that this occurs in New Zealand, 

 except in a list of New Zealand worms given by Beddard (1891), which 

 includes "Eudrilus sp. (fide Benham)." I have no recollection or record of 

 how I came to make that statement to him. 



He adds that it is not unlikely that the worm does occur here, as 

 although it is a native of Africa, it has been found widely distributed, 

 apparently by man. 



It was probably on Beddard's authority that the species was 

 included in the list of introduced worms in the Index Faunee Novce- 

 Zealandiee. 



Family Geoscolecid^ 



Pontoscolex corethruria, Ft. Miiller 



Recorded in the Index Faunee N.Z. in 1903. Dr Benham says: 



A native of Central America and the West Indies, it has been found in 

 several of the Pacific Islands, such as Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Sandwich 

 Islands, but I cannot find any definite statement by any writer that it has 

 occurred here, though Michaelsen in his Monograph (1900) gives New 

 Zealand as one of the localities, but gives no authority for its occurrence. 



Family Lumbricid^ 



Eiseniella tetradra, Savigny 



Mr W. W. Smith recorded this in 1892, under the name Allurtis 

 tetrcedrus, as occurring in still pools in the Ashburton River. Com- 

 monly met with in cultivated land. Mr W. W. Smith states that it 

 occurs in red masses in sluggish overgrown gutters in New Plymouth. 



