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TWO NEW SPECIES OF PHERETIMA. 
Pheretima poiana, n. sp. 
Loc .—North Borneo, Sarawak: Mt. Poi, 8800 ft. high, 
under moss on a stone; T. C. Moulton leg. 
Present one mature specimen. 
External Characters. —Dimensions: Length, 290 mm.; 
thickness, 9 mm. ; number of segments, 136. 
Colour dorsally in general chestnut brown, with pale 
intersegmental furrows ; at the fore end of the body slate- 
coloured. 
Head epilobous (about ^). 
Setse standing ventrally somewhat nearer together than 
dorsally; rows of setae interrupted ventrally, irregularly, 
and for a short space interrupted dorsally. Number of 
setae about: 50-v., 54-x., 57-xii., 52-xix., and 65-xxvi. 
Apparently no setae on the clitellum. 
First dorsal pore on the intersegmental furrow 12-13. 
Clitellum ring-shaped, occupying the fourteenth to six¬ 
teenth segments (=3), without setae. 
Male pores at the eighteenth segment about two-sevenths 
of the whole circumference of the body distant from one 
another, opposite to about the tenth seta from the medial 
ventral line. They are large transverse slits upon a rather 
large transversely oval porophor. 
Female pore single and median, ventrally upon the 
fourteenth segment. 
Spermathecal pores, three pairs upon the intersegmental 
furrows 6-7, 7-8, and 8-9, about in the lines of the 
eleventh seta from the median ventral line, those of one 
pair about f of the whole circumference of the body 
distant from one another. 
No accessory copulatory organs present. 
Internal Anatomy .—The septa 7-8, 10-11, and 12-13 
are rather strongly thickened, the septum 8-9 is wanting, 
and the septa 9-10 and 13-14 are a little thickened. 
Alimentary Tract: A large gizzard between the septa 
7-8 and 9-10. Intestine with very large caeca, which are 
stretching forward from the twenty-seventh segment as far 
as into the sixteenth segment. They are nearly simple, 
only slightly notched where piercing the septa; broad at 
the base, tapering towards the blind fore end. 
Circulatory System : Dorsal vessel simple. Last hearts 
in the thirteenth segment. 
Excretory system micronephric. 
Anterior Male Organs: Two pairs of large, nearly 
globular, seminal vesicles in the tenth and eleventh seg- 
