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Show 194 ME. F. E. BEDDARD ON EARTHWORMS [Jan. 14, Mr. Matschie, in his excellent book on the 'Mammals of German East Africa,' calls the Central-African form Adenota hob (p. 126), but in the appendix he calls it Adenota hoba, Erxl. (p. 147). , , , I cannot believe that Buffon's " Koba ou la grande vache du Senegal" was an Adenota at all, and if it was one, it rather seems to me that Buffon had had two skulls of the same species, and that he figured the adult specimen as " hoba " and the young one as " hob." Eor he affirms that both came from the Senegal. Adenota thomasi is known from the northern Central-African Lake region:-Kavirondo, Ussoga, Uganda (Speke, Jachson, Gedge, Lugard, Stuhlmann, Neumann); Unyoro, Albert Lake (Lugard); Simiu liiver- south-east corner of the Victoria Nyanza (Langheld). Unyoro is the most northern known point. It does not occur east of the watershed to the A7ictoria Nyanza (Man Sotik mountains). North of Unyoro is the region of Adenota marice, Gray, and A. leucotis, Licht. (Bahr el Gazal, Sobat, Kir). To the west the true A. hob occurs-Senegal and Gambia (B.M. Type Paris Mus.), Togo (Baumann), Cameroons (Zenher), extending eastward to the Ubangi river, whence Dybowsky brought specimens to Paris. Southward occur A. leche and A. vardoni, which are both known from British Central Africa (Lakes Mwero, Bangweolo, Nyassa, south Tanganyika). It seems that the two species of Adenota met with by Bbhm and Beichard west of Tanganyika must have belonged to these last two species. A. thomasi lives in herds of 30-50, about five times as many females as males; its habits are those of AEpyceros melampus, but it prefers rather damp meadows near the water. Kiganda name: Nssunu. 1 shall on a future occasion give a more exact comparison of the six species forming the genus Adenota. 6. O n some Earthworms from the Sandwich Islands collected by Mr. R. L. Perkins; with an Appendix on some new Species of Perichceta, &c. By F R A N K E. B E D D A R D, F.R.S., &c. [Received December 16, 1895.] So little has been done in exploring the Earthworm-fauna oceanic islands that I am particularly pleased at being able to offer to the Society an account of a rather extensive collection of Earthworms made in the Sandwich Islands by Mr. B. L. Perkins under the auspices of the British Association Committee for the exploration of those islands. Two collections made at different times and kindly forwarded to me by Dr. D. Sharp, P.K.S., include examples of a number of species principally belonging |