The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . ond. An uninter-rupted series of thirty-one femoral and prseanal pores in themale. Grey above, with round, dark-edged, whitish spots ;a rather indistinct dark line on each side of the head, passing-through the eye ; lower surfaces whitish. millim. From snout to vent 35 Head 11 Width of head 7 Fore limb 14 Hindlimb 18 A single male specimen, from Cape Town; presented bythe South-African Museum. XLIV.—Notice of two Lumbrici with hijid Hinder Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, On the 20th of June last Dr. Gtinther receive
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . ond. An uninter-rupted series of thirty-one femoral and prseanal pores in themale. Grey above, with round, dark-edged, whitish spots ;a rather indistinct dark line on each side of the head, passing-through the eye ; lower surfaces whitish. millim. From snout to vent 35 Head 11 Width of head 7 Fore limb 14 Hindlimb 18 A single male specimen, from Cape Town; presented bythe South-African Museum. XLIV.—Notice of two Lumbrici with hijid Hinder Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, On the 20th of June last Dr. Gtinther received from Dr. Kirk-man, of Hastings, a small earthworm {Lumbricus terrestris)which was remarkable for having the hinder third of itsbody bifurcated. The figures now given are reproductions ofthe sketches made a few days later by Mr Mintern; they 476 Prof. F. J. Bell on Lumbrici with hifid Hinder Ends. exhibit the natural size of the worm, and the form it tookwhen moving at ease. It will be observed that the leftbranch appears to be a little shorter than the right; and at. times this difference appeared to be better marked, so thatan observer would frequently remark that the left branchlooked like a bud. That it was not so was proved by thisone fact, that, as time went on, the difference in size becamemore marked. For more than two months the worm was under my care,and I sedulously attended and watched it. On August 21 it was still very lively, and for the first timethere were apparent some indications of a future clitellum, ofwhich as yet there had been no sign; but even these werestill obscure. There was now a very definite difference be-tween the left- and the right-hand branches, the former beingnot only smaller but much less active. On the 25th of August Mr. Hesse (the taxidermist to theZoological Department, to whose charge I committed the wormduring an absence from London) observed that the creaturehad lost its tails, and on the 29th of August it was founddead. On the 22nd
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