A CHECK‐LIST OF BRITISH OLIGOCHAETA

No check‐list of the British Oligochaeta has appeared since Southern (1909) and aa several families have been revised recently several changes of the nomenclature used in that work have been necessary. In addition some fifteen species of aquatic worms have been added to the British list from my own collections, and therefore brief descriptions of these species are added in a systematic section following the check‐list. In that section also are details of some corrections to the nomenclature and two corrected identifications discovered subsequent to the publication of an initial list of the Tubscidae (Brinkhurst 1960). Dr B. M. Gerard has been kind enough to supply a list of the Lumbricidae (as they will appear in a revision of the Linnean Society Key to the family) which has enabled me to give a complete list of Oligochaeta rather than a list of the aquatic species under investigation in Liverpool.