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Show 998 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON A [Dec. 18, does not enable us to add any details of structure to what we already know from Verrill. The specimens hitherto known of this animal, all more or less imperfect, are three in number, and were all found at TJnalaska by Mr. W . B. Dall, in April and M a y 1872. They are referred to by their discoverer as perhaps identical with Onychoteuthis bergi, in a note on large Cuttlefish in the 'American Naturalist,' vol. vii. p. 484 (1873). They were afterwards described by Verrill (with the aid of M r . Dall's notes) as Ommastrephes robustus (Dall, MSS.), in the ' American Journal of Science,' vol. xii. p. 236 (1876), and again as Onychoteuthis robustus (Dall, MSS.) in the 'Transactions of the Connecticut Academy,' vol. v. p. 246 (1879). Verrill, though describing the animal as a species of Onychoteuthis, pointed out that the pen with its solid terminal cone agreed with that of Ancistroteuthis, Dosidicus, or Lestoteuthis. He closes his discussion as follows : " So far as w e can judge, with our present imperfect data, the relationship of 0. robustus appears to be rather with Lestoteuthis than with any other known group. It is possible, however, that its affinities may prove to be closer with Ancistroteuthis, when the armature is discovered." In 1881, Steenstrup, in his paper on Sihenoteuihis and lestoteuthis (Overs. Vid.-Selsk. Kjob. 1881, p. 19), pointed out that the animal could not possibly belong to Verrill's Lestoteuthis, with its four series of suckers on the arms, and expressed his opinion that it belonged to Ancistroteuthis. The tentacular club n o w described confirms this identification, insomuch as it is identical with the clubs of Ancistroteuthis and Onychoteuthis, which two genera are sufficiently discriminated by the characters of the pen. 5. O n a n e w Species of Earthworm from India belonging to the Genus Amyntas. By FRANK E. BEDDARD, M.A., F.R.S. [Beceived November 20, 1900.] Having just attempted a revision of the genus Amyntas * it may seem early to add a new species to that now rather well-known genus. Nevertheless I cannot place an earthworm, which I received too late for incorporation into that revision, and which is a native of India, among any of the known species of Amyntas. It came to me, through the kindness of M r . Nicholson, from K e w Gardens, where it had been imported from the neighbourhood of Calcutta. I shall give it a name and explain in the course of m y description the reasons which lead m e to regard it as a new, or at any rate not fully-described, species. Unfortunately I had only a single example at m y disposal, which, however, was ahve and could be therefore carefully preserved. 1 P. Z. S. 1900, p. 609. |