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TWO NEW SPECIES OF PHERETIMA. 
small, equalling about one-fifth of the whole circumference. 
I may add, that in accordance with the position of the 
male pores in P. pliilippina, also the spermathecal pores of 
one pair are rather close together, viz., in the specimen 
examined by me, distant from one another about one-fifth 
of the whole circumference of the body in the zone of the 
pores. I suspect these two species, P. pliilippina and 
P. merabahensis , to be identical; but a definite statement 
can hardly be made without a re-examination of typical 
specimens of P. merabahensis. 
Beddard * puts my P. bindjeyensis as a synonym to 
P. pliilippina of Rosa. This cannot be maintained. Beddard 
did not consider the great difference in the situation of the 
male pores and the spermathecal pores. This difference, 
indeed, is not easily to be conceived out of Rosa’s and 
my modes of stating. In this character, P. bindjey¬ 
ensis comes near the new species P. poiana. But 
P. poiana is a much larger form, differing from P. bindjey¬ 
ensis by the shape of the spermathecal diverticula, by the 
shape of the sperm sacs, and by other characters of perhaps 
minor value. 
From P. impudens as well, P. poiana is distinguished 
principally by the shape of the spermathecal diverticula. 
* 
In Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900, p. 616. 
