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CONTEIBUTIONS TO A KNOWLEDGE OF SOUTH 
AFEICAN OLIGOCHAETA.— Part IL 
DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF PHEEODEILUS 
By Professoe E. J. Goddard, B.A., D.Sc, and D. E. Malan, M.A. 
(Eeceived October 15, 1912.) 
(Eead October 16, 1912.) 
Phreodrilus africanus, sp. nov. 
PL XIV. 
A large number of specimens of this form were obtained on the top 
of Table Momitain dming August. A previous excursion during mid- 
summer had proved unsuccessful, and the same result has been ex- 
perienced during summer-time in areas where other forms were obtained 
during August and September. 
This constitutes the first record of a representative of the genus Phreo- 
drilus in Africa, although a species has been described from Kerguelen 
Island. This genus is the only representative of the family which in- 
cludes species from more than one land area, and it now includes forms from 
South America, Kerguelen Island, New Zealand, Campbell Islands, and 
South Africa. It is highly probable, however, that Phreodrilus is the 
central and most primitive genus, and thus enjoys a much wider distri- 
bution than the other genera, which in all probability have arisen in the 
areas they now occupy. 
The genus, as is the case in each of the various genera of the family, 
differs from the others in regard to the spermathecae and their communi- 
cations with the exterior. It will be seen later that the new species 
herein described is peculiar in common with a few other species in that 
the spermathecal pores are situated towards the dorsal side of the body, 
and that this represents an intermediate condition between what obtains 
in many species of Phreodrilus in which the pores have retained their 
more primitive ventral position, and those genera in which the sperma- 
thecal ducts have either been displaced towards the dorsal side to com- 
municate with the male or female genital apparatus, or have disappeared 
