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Show 662 DR. A. G. BOURNE ON INDIAN EARTHWORMS. [DeC. 21, Verh. geol. ^cW-Verhandlungen der k.-k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. Verh^alu^rfi Gesell. Z«-Verhandlungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft Vertn^rt'Ver. i^.-Verhandlungen des naturhistoriscb-mcdicinischen Vereins zu Heidelberg. . Va •„. ipv Verh naturh. Ver. JJ/W^.-Verhandlungen des naturbistoriscben Verems der preussischen Rbeinlande und Westfalens. (Bonn.) f W i f ^ . Ges. ifer^.-Verhandlungen der pbysikahscben Gesellschaft zu Verh.^hys.-med. Gesell. WW.-Verhandlungender physikaliscb-medicinischen Gesellscbaft in Wiirzburg. „ . , . . ,„ TerA. z,b. Wien.-Verbandlungen der zoologiscb-botanischen Gesellscnalt in Wien. (Vienna.) JFWJ^. naturw. Zeitschr. -Wiirzburger naturwissenschaftlicbe Zeitschritt. Z <™Z. tfes.-Zeitschrift der deutscben geologischen Gesellschaft. (Berlin. Z. ges. Naturw.-Zeitsehvih fiir die gesammten Naturwissenschaften. (Berim.) Zool. Anz.-Zoologiscber Anzeiger. (Leipzig.) ZwZ. JaAri.-Zoologische Jabrbiicber. Zeitscbrift fiir Systematik, Geograpbie und Biologie der Thiere. (Jena.) Zool. Journ.-The Zoological Journal. (London.) Z. wiss. Zool.-Zeitscbrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie. (Leipzig.) 3. On Indian Earthworms.-Part I. Preliminary Notice of Earthworms from the Nilgiris and Shevaroys. By ALFRED GIBBS BOURNE, D.SC. (Lond.), F.L.S., Fell. Univ. Coll. Lond., Fell. Madras Univ., Professor of Biology in the Presidency College, Madras. (Communicated by Prof. R A Y LANKESTER, F.Z.S.) [Received November 16, 1886.] When I commenced to find out what Earthworms were to be found here for the purposes of class-study, I was totally unprepared for the immense variety of forms which seem to occur in the country. I have at present examined a very few localities only, and as every locality yields new forms and I have already found more than twenty different species, all of which were hitherto unknown, the field m ay be pronounced to be fairly extensive. I came across very few worms in m y garden in Madras during the hot weather, but then I made no special search for them; those I did find belonged to the genus Perichceta, but seemed to be new species (I have since determined that they are new) ; I have found up to the present at least three species of Perichceta in Madras town, but have reserved them for subsequent description. In M a y I went up to the Nilgiris for some weeks, and there I found numerous forms, and these always differed in different localities. In October I spent about a week on the Shevaroy Hills, and found in that short time five different forms, all markedly differing from those from the Nilgiris. |
