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IN yesterday's NATURE I find that the Rev. Hilderic Friend has again given the name L. rubescens(Friend) to a supposed new species of earthworm. This worm appears to me to be identical with Enterion festivum (Savigny), described under the name Lumbricus festivus by Rosa. Though comparatively rare, it is by no means new, nor even new to Britain, though I know of no published record of its occurrence here. I met with two or three specimens among the worms supplied to me when I was working at the chapter on Lumbricus in “Marshall and Hurst,” and identified them subsequently by the help of Rosa's table. At the time I took them for mere varieties, and put them into a bottle for future study. I believe the specimens are now in the possession of Dr. Benham, who has entirely overlooked the species in his “Attempt to Classify Earthworms” (Quart. Fourn. Micr. Sci. xxxi.).
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HURST, C. On a Supposed New Species of Earthworm and on the Nomenclature of Earthworms. Nature 47, 31 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/047031c0
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