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Show 654 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON A [May 22, Tbe orifices of the oviducts appear to be upon the fourteenth segment. On this segment and between tbe ventral setae is a small convex quadrangular area with rounded angles. I believe that the actual pores are placed at the sides of this convexity in the valley which separates it from the surrounding integument, but I have not seen them. Fig. 1. Ventral surface of Benhamia budgetti. The clitellar segments are numbered. The orifices of the spermiducal glands are upon the xviith and xixth segments. The usual furrow connects the two pores of each side. This furrow is on both sides bowed outwards; it passes outside of the position of the ventral setae of the xviiith segment; but tbe setae themselves I have not succeeded in seeing, nor the apertures of the sperm-duct. Structure of the body-wall. -Very few examples of this genus |
