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a special liking for ooze, vegetable and animal remains in a state 
of decay, the foetid banks of streams in manufacturing districts, 
and similar spots. I should be glad if correspondents would 
supply me with gleanings from such like situations for further 
record. 
II. Brirish ENcHyrRzips. 
During a recent flying visit to Yorkshire I took occasion to 
visit a spot on the banks of the Aire at Apperley where I have 
often in former years found valuable material. The time of year 
was not favourable, as the worms had gone into winter quarters. 
I was fortunate, however, in finding along with a number of 
Tubificids one or two white worms, one of which is new to Great 
Britain. I have therefore to place on record F'ridericia striata 
(Levinsen). The spot where the worm was found is connected 
with a mill, and more than one curious find has been made in the 
same locality in days gone by. This remark is made lest it 
should be supposed that a worm hitherto known only in Denmark 
and Germany would be unlikely to appear in Great Britain. Ude 
has indeed given it, since Mr. Beddard’s monograph was pub- 
lished, as a native of Monte Video, whence it was brought by 
Dr. Michaelsen ; so that there is no reason why it should not be 
found with us. It has from six to eight sete in a bundle, but 
the peculiarity which struck me as most characteristic was the 
gizzard-like enlargement of the intestine in segment ix. My 
specimen has forty-five segments, the first five or six of which 
are striated, or marked by some irregular bands or vacuoles, 
usually three in each segment. 
Since I reported the destructive Hnchytreus parvulus, Friend, 
as an aster pest last year, I have found it by the score along 
with another species of Hnchytreus and the pretty Julus pul- 
chellus in my own garden, where between them they have almost 
entirely destroyed a row of celery originally containing about one 
hundred sticks. It is evident that there is still room for a good 
deal of research among our micro-annelid fauna. 
