E V I O R A Musemmti of Coiraiparative Zoology Cambridge, Mass. December 29, 1952 Number 10 ON THE EARTHWORMS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE By O. E. Gates So far only one record of earthworms in New Hampshire has been encountered in the literature. The worms were found "under the bark of trees" at elevations of 2,000-3,000 feet in the White Moun-tains by a German delegate to the International Zoological Congress at Boston in 1907. The specimens went to an Irish Museum where they were identified as Dendrobaena rubida (Savigny) 1826, by South-ern (1910). The species had not previously been reported from North America and since 1910 there has been no further record from this continent. The record was given in a short article on another kind of worm and, though the article was published in Philadelphia, the record was not included in Smith's review C1917') of the Lumbricidae of North America. Through the kindness of Dr. P. J. Darlington, Jr. who donated the bait remaining from a fishing trip, it is now possible to list a second species for New Hampshire. Southern (1910, p. 18) quoted his collector who stated that "earth-worms were very rarely met with in the forests at elevations of 2,000-3,000 feet." Similar statements have been made in the past with ref-erence to forests of northern New England as well as of northern New York. Accordingly, Dr. Darlington's observations appear to be worthy of record : "My experience has been that it is always possible to find earth-worms in fair numbers even in the heavy woods in the more remote parts of New England, or at least in the White Mts. and the Connecti-cut lakes districts of New Hampshire. I have looked for them many times when I wanted them for bait for trout and I have always been able to find them under cover along the banks of brooks. I am fairly
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