262 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



DISTRIBUTION OF BRITISH ANNELIDS. 

 By the Bev. Hilderic Friend, F.L.S., F.B.M.S. 



(Continued from p. 154.) 



Scottish Records. 



With the exception of one or two records in Dr. Johnston's 

 ' Catalogue of British Worms,' published in 1865, nothing 

 appears to have been done among the Earthworms of Scotland 

 till I took up the subject upwards of twenty years ago. My own 

 researches have been ably supplemented by the labours of Mr. 

 Wm. Evans, F.B.S.E., of Edinburgh, who published, in 1910, 

 an account of the ' Oligochaeta (Earthworms and their Allies) of 

 the Forth Area.' The following notes will incorporate all the 

 records which have up till the present been made by myself and 

 others, so far as they have come under my observation, the 

 list being limited as heretofore to the larger forms known as 

 Lumbricida : — 



1. Aberdeen. — Prof. James W. H. Trail sent me a consign- 

 ment of Earthworms on Nov. 3rd, 1909, collected in his garden 

 in Old Aberdeen. Out of forty-four specimens which were in a 

 lit condition for identification, I found six specimens of (1) 

 Liunbricus terrestris, L., six of (2) L. rnbellus, Hoffm., and eight 

 of (3) L. castaneus, Savigny. There were four specimens of (4) 

 Allulobophora longa, Ude, ten of (5) A. caliginosa forma targida, 

 four of (6) A. chlorotica, four of (7) Dendrobcena subrubicunda, 

 and two of (8) Eisenia rosea. A total of eight species. 



2. Ayrshire. — In July, 1892, I received a letter from Mr. M. 

 Young, of Paisley, saying that he proposed visiting the Girvan 

 District, and hoped to send me some gleanings. As they have 

 not yet arrived, I fear the postal authorities have not done their 

 duty ! There are no records known to me for Banff. 



3. Berwick-on-Tweed is mentioned in Johnston's ' Cata- 

 logue,' and four species are recorded, viz. : (1) Lumbricus ter- 

 restris, (2) L.festivus, (3) L. minor ( = castaneus probably), and 

 (•4) the Brandling, Allolobophora (= Eisenia) fectida, Sav. 



