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Show 1901.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 359 lhe length of the single specimen was 63 m m . aud the diameter varied from 1-50 m m . to 2-75 m m . The latter, the greatest diameter, was taken across the swollen areas on the generative segments, to which reference will be made immediately. Text-fig. 88. j, w I * / I Ventral aspect of clitellar and neighbouring segments of GhrdiodrUus papillatus. X 0. The prostomium was a little difficult to study accurately. It appears, however, to be like that of other species of the genus and to be what Michaelsen 1 has termed " zygolobisch," i. e. the 1 •'Oligochrcta" in 'Das Tierreich,' 1900. 24* |