We have also in this Indian region the equally ubiquitous _Eudrilus eugeniae_ which need not of course detain us further. The Lumbricidae are for the most part of European forms with the exception of _Helodrilus indicus_ conceivably an actual inhabitant of India. It is among the Megascolecidae that the vast majority of the forms endemic in India are to be found. We shall take this family according to its sub-families. In the first place we note that the sub-family Acanthodrilinae is totally unrepresented. The large sub-family Megascolecinae has very numerous representatives. Of the genus _Megascolex_ itself there are some 30 species, of which, however, two or three are looked upon as varieties. Of the allied genus _Notoscolex_ there are ten species and of _Perionyx_ about 13. The genera _Megascolides_, _Diporochaeta_, _Spenceriella_ and _Woodwardia_ have only six species between them of which three belong to _Megascolides_. _Plutellus_ has five species in this region. _Lampito_, which is a widely spread form with but one species _L. mauritii_, may or may not find here its original home. It also occurs in Africa and Madagascar. _Pheretima_ is represented by no less than 12 species, of which at any rate the very great majority are peregrine forms, and not to be safely regarded as forming an integral part of the fauna of the Indian peninsula and adjoining countries. Of the sub-family Octochaetinae the type genus _Octochaetus_ has ten species in this region and _Eutyphoeus_, which is restricted to the region, has 15 species or perhaps rather more. _Hoplochaetella_ has but one. Of the Trigastrinae there are four or five examples of the genus _Dichogaster_ which occur within the region now under consideration; but it is doubtful whether they are truly indigenous. On the other hand _Eudichogaster_, closely allied both to _Dichogaster_ and _Trigaster_, seems to be confined to this part of the world where it is represented by five species. Finally we come to the last sub-family--that of the Ocnerodrilinae, which is represented by a species apiece of the genera _Ocnerodrilus_, _Nematogenia_ and _Gordiodrilus_. The latter species _G. travancorensis_ is alone to be regarded as endemic and it is very near to the African _G. zanzibaricus_, described some years since by the present author. The remaining family of terricolous Oligochaeta found in India is the family Moniligastridae which is practically limited to this part of the world and consists of at least twenty species distributed among the genera _Moniligaster_, _Eupolygaster_, _Desmogaster_ and _Drawida_, the majority belonging to the last-named genus. This quarter of the globe is therefore inhabited by 18 genera which are certainly truly endemic, and which comprise between them about 120 species. But only four or five genera are peculiar.