578 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



Nematohelminthes. 



Australian Endoparasites.* — Georgian Sweet gives a list of the 

 various Trematodes, Cestodes, Nematodes, Insects, and Arachnids that 

 have been recorded as endoparasites in Australian stock and native 

 fauna. She adds a number to the list, e.g. Triodontophorus intermedins 

 sp. n. and Ascaris marina (Linn.). 



Fresh-water Nematodes.!— L. A. Jagerskiold gives an account of 

 the free-living Nematodes in fresh-water in Germany — a study hitherto 

 very baffling because of the scattered literature. Not less welcome is 

 Dr. v. Linstow's guide to the parasitic Nematodes. R. Hartmeyer deals 

 with four species of Mermis and with the Gordiidas. 



Indian Gordiacea.J — L. Camerano reports on the Gordiacea in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, and describes three new species : Chordodes 

 annandalei from a Mantis, Ch. giglio-tosi, and Gordius zavatarii. 



Platyhelminthes. 



Endoparasites of Fishes.§ — Jas. Johnstone describes the Cestode 

 Dibothrium crassiceps from a hake, the Trematode Zoogonoides viviparns 

 from a plaice, a hake with egg-like bodies in its muscles, and two plaice 

 with tumours. 



New Davaineida3.||— 0. Fuhrmann continues his researches on the 

 Cestodes of birds, and describes a large number of new forms : 28 new 

 species of Davainea, 4 of Cotugnia, and 1 of Idiogenes. 



Structure and Classification of Digenetic Trematodes. IF — W. Nicoll 

 discusses the difficulty of classifying Trematodes, and describes in a very 

 thorough way a number of new forms. In the new sub-family Stephano- 

 phialinse he erects a new genus Stephanophiala with S. laureata Zeder as 

 type ; in the sub-family Brachycladiinae, B. oblongum Braun is dis- 

 cussed ; in the sub-family Allocreadiinre, Lebouria idonea g. et sp. n. is 

 described and Podocotyle atomon Rud. The classification of the Allo- 

 creadiinae with its six genera is discussed. In the new sub-family 

 Fellodistominai Nicoll describes F. fellis Olsson, F. agnotum sp. n., 

 and Steringophorus cluthensis sp. n. ; in the sub-family Plagiorchinse he 

 describes P. notabilis sp. n. from the rock pipit. 



New Species of Chiorchis.** — Th. Barrois describes Chiorchis noci 

 sp. n., found by Dr. Noc in the cascum of Macacus cynomolgus. Only 

 one other species of this remarkable genus of Cladorchinge is known, 

 that described by Diesing (under the name of Amphistomum fabacewri) 



* Proc. R. Soc. Victoria, xxi. (1909) pp. 454-528 (1 pi.). 



t Die Siisswasserfauna Deutscklands. Herausgegeben von A. Brauer. Heft 15 

 (Jena, 1909) pp. 1-92 (155 figs.). 



X Records Indian Museum, ii. (1908) pp. 113-17. 



§ Report Lancashire Sea-fisheries Laboratory, xvii. (1909) pp. 87-100 (2 pis. 

 and 4 figs.). 



Ii Centralbl. Parasitenk., xlix. (1909) pp. 94-124 (44 figs.). 



\ Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., liii. (1909) pp. 391-487 (2 pis.). 

 ** C.R. Soc. Biol. Paris, lxiv. (1908) pp. 791-3. 



