In June of the present year, 1892, my friend Professor Bell sent me a specimen of a worm collected on the Nilgiris by Mr. T. R. Henderson, which forms a new species of the genus Moniligaster, Perrier, and for which I propose the name M. indicus.

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The apparent exception in M. japonicus, Mich., requires further investigation.

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‘Arch, de Biol.,’ x, 1890: “Rech, sur le syst. cutané et sur le syst. musculaire du Lombric terrestre.”

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I shall use the word “prostate “to refer to the glandular wall of the organ, the word “atrium “being employed for the chamber into which the gland-cells and sperm-duct open.

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‘Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin.,’ xxxvi, part 2.

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‘Report of Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1883,’ p. 880, pi. i, fig. 1.

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“Note on Aquatic Oligochæta,” ‘Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci.,’ xxxiii.

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In M. japonicus Michaelsen mentions that he found only one “Samentasche” on the left side attached to the body-wall between Somites Ix/x. If this is a spermatheca, it differs from the remaining species in being without the very characteristic long duct, as well as in its position.

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“A British Aquatic Rhinodrilid,” this Journal, November, 1892.

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“Description of Three New Species of Earthworm,” ‘Proc. Zool. Soc.,’ 1892, p. 136.

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