ABSTRACT
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.
The apparent exception in M. japonicus, Mich., requires further investigation.
‘Arch, de Biol.,’ x, 1890: “Rech, sur le syst. cutané et sur le syst. musculaire du Lombric terrestre.”
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.
‘Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin.,’ xxxvi, part 2.
‘Report of Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1883,’ p. 880, pi. i, fig. 1.
“Note on Aquatic Oligochæta,” ‘Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci.,’ xxxiii.
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.
“A British Aquatic Rhinodrilid,” this Journal, November, 1892.
“Description of Three New Species of Earthworm,” ‘Proc. Zool. Soc.,’ 1892, p. 136.
