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Show 298 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON NEW OR [May 18, Guinea,' pt. ii. pi. 2, 1876), which belonged to the Museum Warsaw. Since then only one specimen has been obtained (see Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 252), which is now in the British Museum, but nothing trustworthy has been made out as to the supposed habitat of the species-Waigiou (cf. Salvadori, Orn. Pap. ii. p. 646, 1881). Quite recently I have procured for the Dresden Museum a male example of this rare species, therefore the fourth, offered by a merchant from Amsterdam together with other Papuan birds. This specimen resembles exactly those figured by Gould and myself, but its origin is quite as obscure as that of the other specimens. The accompanying birds being apparently of species found in New Guinea, and not in Waigiou, perhaps Beccari's supposition (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 710, 1875), that this Paradise-bird occurs on N.W. New Guinea and Salawati, may be right. As it is of importance to know where type specimens are preserved, I add the history of those of Rhipidornis gulielmi-tertii described by myself. Having kept them in the Dresden Museum since the year 1875, I one day in the year 1877 received a telegram from van Musschenbroek, who had returned home in 1876, telling me that he wished to show the birds to King William III. I sent the specimens to him, and never saw them again. They remained in the hands of the king, and we never succeeded in recovering these types for science, though supported by the late Prof. Schlegel of Leyden ; but after van Musschenbroek's death in the year 1883, the King of the Netherlands delivered the specimens to the Museum of the Zoological Society (Natura artis magistra) of Amsterdam, where they probably will remain. 2. Descriptions of some new or little-known Earthworms, together with an Account of the Variations in Structure exhibited by Perionyx excavatus, E. P. By F R A N K E. B E D D A R D , M.A., F.R.S.E., Prosector to the Society. [Eeceived May 18, 1886.] CONTENTS. 1. Note on Pcrichteta ivdica, Horst, p. 298. 2. Pcrichata horsti, n. sp., p. 300. 3. A new Species of Eudrilus, p. 302. 4. Additional note on M'u-rocheeta rappii, p. 306. 5. Remarks on the Variation of Perionyx excavatus, p.'308. 1. NOTE ON PERICHCETA INDICA, Horst. Perichceta, sp., Horst, Nederl. Arch. f. Zool. Bd. iv. 1879. Meyascolex indicus, Horst, Notes from Leyden Museum, vol. v. p. 186. With the exception of Lumbricus and other forms affined to it which ought perhaps to be regarded as subgenera (Allolobophora |
