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5. Aulophorus furcatus (Oken).
Length 6-16 mm. Diameter 0-2 mm. 35-40 segments. Locality : Bombay, Khed, Poona
District, in a hot spring.
Family : Enchytraeidae.
Small worms, aquatic or terrestrial in habit, whitish or pinkish in colour ; setae mosdy in
four bundles per segment ; dorsal and ventral; setae similar in form.
6. Enchytraeus indicus (Stephenson)
Length 4 mm. brownish : segments 31.
These worms are found in the egg membranes of the pond.
snail—Pila globosa.
Locality : Bombay.
Family : Moniligastridae.
Setae simple ; pointed, sigmoid ; 4 pairs per segment.
7. Drawida barwelli var impertusai Stephenson
Length 45 mm. diameter 3 5 mm. segments 130 : blotch olive.
Locality : Bombay.
Family : Megascolecidae.
This is the largest family of earthworms.
Setae simply pointed ; four pairs per segment or numerous ; clitellum beginning with or
in front of XV.
8. Megascolides prashadi (Stephenson) Length 42 mm. dia : 4 mm. segments 140.
Sakarwari on the way to Mahabaleshwar.
9. Megascolex konkanensis (Fedarb)
Locality : Bombay.
10. Megascolex mauribii (Kinb).
Locality : Bombay.
Genus : Pheretima.
Setae numerous on each segment. This genus is one of the commo¬nest in India.
11. Pheretima elongata (E. Perrier)
Locality : Bombay, Manmad.
12. Pheretima hawayana (Rosa)
Locality : Bombay.
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