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Show 808 MR. F. E. BEDDARD AND MISS FEDARB [J line 20, A few specimens of this genus have been recently received from K e w Gardens through the kindness of Mr. Nicholson. Ihetr native place is Jamaica. They evidently belong to the species Trichochceta hesperidum. In the description of tnat species there axe u. tew lacuna,. Some of these can be filled up by additional facts derived from a study of these fresh specimens. 1 he original, Fig. 3. ^ l*k TJ, Trichochceta hesperidum, sperm-sac. and up to the present only, specimen of the genus was not mature. Some of the worms which we refer to in the present communication were fully mature. W e are able therefore to m a p the clitellum, which was not developed in the former specimen. This modified region of the integument occupies six segments, |
