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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



has similarly only five girdle segments. This species, 

 as well as L. papillosus, Friend, has hitherto not 

 been found in England.] 



II. — Genus Allolobophora. 



Lip partially dovetailed into the first ring. Girdle 

 segments from four to ten in number. Tubcrcula 

 pubertatis on consecutive or alternate segments, either 

 as papillre or forming a distinct band. Setae eight, in 

 four couples, more or less irregularly disposed. 

 Male pores as in Lumbricus. Colour-range very 

 wide — brown, clay, flesh, green — seldom iridescent. 

 Usually cylindrical throughout. Exudes slime or 

 turbid fluid, sometimes very pungent. Nine species 

 are known as British. 



28-35 



6. A. long A, Ude, 



"34 



Distribution . — Same 



8. A. turgida, Eisen, 



Distribution. 



as No. 1, with which it was until recently confused. 



7. A. PROFUGA, Rosa, ^° 3 5. Distribution. — 

 31—34 



Norfolk, Hertford, Nottingham, Gloucestershire, 

 Montgomery, North Wales, Yorkshire, Westmor- 

 land, Donegal. 



28— 34 

 3i : 33' 



Sussex, Kent, Wilts, Somerset, Devon, Gloucester, 

 Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, Herts, Notts, Mont- 

 gomery, N. Wales, Yorkshire, Lancashire, West- 

 morland, Cumberland, Lanarkshire, Perth, Dublin, 

 Down, Keriy. Formerly confused with the next, 

 and known as L. communis, on which account 

 the earlier records for Nos. 8 and 9 are not to be 

 relied upon. 



9. A. TRAPEZOIDEA, Duge?, 2 ^ — Distribution. 



h 31—33 



— Essex, Norfolk, Somerset, Gloucester, Bucks, 

 Herts, Oxford, Montgomery, Notts, Yorks, N. 

 Wales, Lancashire, Westmorland, Cumberland, 

 Lanarkshire, Kerry. 



26—32 



29— 31' 



Sussex, Essex, Norfolk, Somersetshire, Devonshire, 

 Montgomery, Herts, Oxford, Leicestershire, North- 

 ants, Notts, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Westmorland, 

 Cumberland, Lanarkshire, Perth, Dublin, Down, 

 Kerry, Donegal. 



29—37 



ic. A. mucosa, Eisen, 



Dist) ilmtion. — 



11. A. CHLOROTICA, Savigny, 

 tribution. — Same as No. I. 



12. A. cambrica, Friend, 



3i = 33 = 35 

 29—37 



Dis- 



Distri- 



31 : 33 = 35 



bution. — Montgomery ; other records doubtful. Note 

 that while the girdle-formula is the same as No. 11, 

 the two worms are totally different, both internally 

 and externally in every other respect. 



13. A. fcetida, Savigny, 2 



-Same as No. I. 



Distribution. 



28—30 



This is the angler's Brandling. 



2'7 "? ~» 



14. A. HIBERNICA, Friend, — Distribution. 



30—31 



— Dublin, Louth. 



III. — Genus Dendrob^ena. 



A group of small rose-brown worms found in 

 decaying trees, with seta; usually in eight rows. Lip 

 very delicate, the insertion of which into the first 

 ring may be very slight or very deep. They exude a 

 small quantity of yellow fluid from the dorsal pores, 

 which begin between the 5th and 6th segments. See 

 Friend, "Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology," 

 vol. xxiv. pp. 292 seq. There» are now six known 

 species in Great Britain ; two years ago they were 

 totally unknown. 



15. D. CELTICA, Rosa, ^2~3 Distribution. — 

 33 — 34 



Sussex, Kent, Somerset, Devonshire, Gloucester- 

 shire, Oxfordshire, Northants, Yoikshire, N. Wales, 

 Lancashire, Dumfries, Lanarkshire, Donegal, Dublin, 

 Down. 



27— 31 



28 — 29' 



Sussex, Essex, Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Herts, 

 Yorkshire, N. Wales, Cumberland, Dublin. 



20 — v\ 



17. D. Boeckii, Eisen, — — — . Distribution.— 

 31—33 



Yorkshire, Lanarkshire. Only two duly authenti- 

 cated records. Earlier entries belong to the next. 

 A boreal species, as No. 19 is a Southern and 

 Continental form. 



26 — 32 



16. D. arborea, Eisen, 



Distribution. 



iS. D. subrubicunda, Eisen, 

 tion. — Same as No. I 



28 — 30 

 The angler's Gilt-tail. 



Distribu- 



26 — ^ 1 



19. D. constricta, Rosa, . 



o 



-Sussex. 



20. D. Eiseni, Levinsen, 



24- 



Distribution. 



Distribution. 



— Sussex, Essex, Norfolk, Devonshire, Gloucester- 

 shire, Hertfordshire, Yorkshire, N. Wales, Cumber- 

 land, Dublin. 



IV. — Genus Allurus. 



Male pores on segment 13. Semi-aquatic. Five 



species. 



c . 22—26 



21. All. tetraedrus, Savigny, - — >.. Dis- 



' a J 23 — 26 



tribution. — Same as No. I, with the addition of 

 Dorset. 



22. All. amphisb^ena, Duges. An element of 

 doubt lingers around this species, which I hope this 

 year to be able to remove. 



23. All. tetragonurus, Friend, — 2 . Dis- 



19—21 



tribution. — Bangor. 



22 — °7 



24. All. flavus, Friend, - - . Distribution. 

 7 23—25 



-Yorkshire, Cumberland. 



