SOME EABTHW0RM8 FROM QVEEN8LANT). 
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Figure 1. Digaster longmani, sp. nov. Spermatheca from holotype. 
The spermathecse are two pairs normally occurring in viii. and ix., but the left 
one of the anterior pair has become dis]daccd forward into vii. General shape of 
spermatheca tubular ; ampulla ovoidal, half as broad as long, slightly less than half 
the total length of the organ. The duct is about one-third as broad as long ; has one 
or two conspicuous, obliquely placed saccnlations about half way from the ectal end, 
if two, they are on opposite sides and converge ectally. Diverticulum small, trans- 
versely elongate, ovoidal structure obliquely placed near the opening of the duct ; 
extends almost across the flattened side of the duct, sessile. Within the diverticulum 
there are visible several iridescent clumps of sperm. 
Remarkft.- — '^I'he species Digaste:r longmani seems to be most closely related to 
I), brimnms Spencer, from which, however, it differs in several characters, notably 
in the s]X‘rmatheca, These two species are unique within the genus in being metandric. 
Tambourine Mountain, Southeni Queensland. One complete 
specimen (the holotype) aiul four fragments including a head end. Donated by 
C. (Jolquhoun, and registered G. 084. 
Genus WOODWARDIELLA Stephenson. 
WOODWARDIELLA TRYONI (Fletcher). 
1890. Cryptodrilus Tryoni, Fletcher, Free. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., iv. (2), pt. 3, p. 994. 
1910, Woodwardia (?) Tryoni^ Miehaelsen, Kungl. Sven. Vet.-Akad. Hand. 52, No. 13 (Mjoborg’s 
Austral. Kxpd.), p. 02. 
A single specimen from Brisbane, 580 mm. long, soft and poorly preserved, 
is referred to Fletcher's Cryptodrilus tryoni, although it differs in some points from 
the original description. 
The nephridiopores are in furrows 1/2, 2/3, 5/0, and thence in alternate 
furrow's in d ; in 3/4, 4/5, and thence in alternate furrow's to 10/11 in c, further 
back in b. 
Fletcher describes the spermathecse as “ three pairs, each of them with two 
caeca.” This would seem to indicate that the caeca or diverticula are simple. In the 
specimen before me the ampulla is somewhat tubular, bloated a little in its proximal 
half and at the wddest portion one-third to a haK as broad as long ; the duct short, 
about two and a half times as long as broad, the length less than half the length of 
the ampulla. The tw'o diverticula are attached close together on the anterior face of 
