The remainder of the Asiatic Continent is not very well explored with regard to its earthworm inhabitants. It seems clear however that the southern and coastal region of China and Japan with the Malay peninsula are really continuous with the mass of islands which lie between India and Australia and form together a tract of land which is characterised by an Oligochaetous fauna differing from both that of India on the one hand and Australia on the other. We shall therefore consider this huge portion of the globe as one region comparable to the other divisions that have been hitherto considered. With reference to the Lumbricidae and Geoscolecidae the same remarks may be made as in the case of India. The indigenous forms of the latter family are to be looked upon as outside of the present survey since they are largely or entirely aquatic forms. _Pontoscolex corethrurus_, and _Eudrilus eugeniae_, need not detain us for reasons already amply stated. We now come to the great family Megascolecidae. Of this family the genus _Pheretima_ stands at the head; and of the 200 or so species that have been or can be assigned to this genus all, with merely two or three exceptions, are natives of the Eastern Archipelago and adjoining mainlands of Asia. Of other Megascolecinae the region has yielded the following genera. In Java one species of _Woodwardia_ (_W. javanica_) has lately been described. It is regarded by Michaelsen however as doubtfully indigenous. And the same remark may be made of _Perionyx_. _Plionogaster_, however, with four or five species, is limited, as far as our present knowledge goes, to the Philippines and to neighbouring islands. The Acanthodrilinae and Octochaetinae are totally absent from this part of the world, there being no record even of peregrine species of these sub-families. The sub-family Trigastrinae is not however unrepresented; for of _Dichogaster_ several species occur, such as _D. malayana_ and _D. saliens_. But these are by no means certainly to be looked upon as real natives of the situations within this area where they occur. This completes the scanty list of genera found in the region under consideration; for one Moniligastrid (_M. barwelli_) is hardly to be looked upon as indigenous. We have therefore to record here but five genera, of which only two are certainly indigenous and probably also confined to the region; they contain between them certainly two hundred species.