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trapezoides, (5) A. longa, (6) A. chlorotica, (7) D. subrubi- 

 cunda, (8) D. arborea, (9) D. mammalis, (10) B. eiseni, (11) 

 Octolasium lacteum, (12) 0. cyaneum, (13) 0. gracile, (14) L. 

 rubellus, (15) L. castaneus, (16) L. terrestris. Some very inte- 

 resting discoveries have been made during the past year, and it 

 was a pleasure to find (17) Helodrilus oculatus, Hoffm., in a 

 locality which places it beyond suspicion as a native Lumbricid. 

 This is one of the finest county records, totalling 17 species. 



32. Oxfordshire. — My researches into the Annelid fauna of 

 this interesting county go back over two decades. In 1892 my 

 Brackley correspondent, Mr. Henry Blaby, sent me consign- 

 ments, particulars of which were published in the ' Banbury 

 Guardian ' of Aug. 25th. This was, so far as I can discover, the 

 first occasion on which any attempt was ever made to deal with 

 the subject scientifically. The collection included seven species, 

 viz. (1) L. rubellus, (2) L. castaneus, (3) A. chlorotica, (4) A. 

 trapezoides, (5) Eisenia rosea (= A. mucosa), (6) D. subrubicunda, 

 and (7) D. mammalis (= celtica). When twelve years later 

 (April 7th, 1904), I addressed a letter to the same paper on the 

 subject, it was possible to add five further species, to the list. I 

 had earlier in the year paid a personal visit to the University 

 City, and examined the Botanic Gardens, and a worm was found 

 on that occasion which, though numerous there, has hitherto 

 been found nowhere else. This was (8) Eisenia veneta, var. or 

 subspecies tepidaria, Friend ; (9) Allurus tetradrus was found by 

 the river, (10) 0. cyaneum in the Gardens, (11) A. longa on the 

 pavement near the Martyrs' Memorial, and the twelfth species 

 was the Brandling (12) Eisenia fcetida. In May, 1904, under 

 the presidency of Dr. Veley, I gave a lecture before the members 

 of the Ashmolean Nat. Hist. Soc. on British Annelids, with 

 special reference to Oxford, and was able to record fifteen native 

 species. To the foregoing had been added (13) L. terrestris, (14) 

 O. profugum, and a species which I mistook for A. tyrtcea. Later 

 examination, however, showed that this was new to science. In 

 the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' for March 12th, 1904, I gave an 

 account of some of the worms, figuring O. cyaneum, which was 

 new to Britain, and the girdle of tepidaria. But it was not till 

 Nov. 27th, 1909, that I published in the same paper an account 

 of the new Oxford worm, which now appears as (15) A. inter- 





