70 AVIAN CESTODES, 



with each other. The formation of separated egg-capsules 

 was not recognised. The viterus thus arises as it does in 

 Monopylidium, but reaches a condition similar to that seen in 

 the typical species of (JhoanoUtma. 



The type-slide of Chocuwtii'nia melijjhaijlJdrum, taken from 

 I'tiloth Jeucotis Lath., has been deposited in the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney. 



Anomot^nia rhinocheti, n.sp., 

 from the Kagu, 

 Jihuwrlu'tiiK jiihiifiis Verr. & Des Murs. 

 (Plate V.) 



Mr. H. E. Finckh, of Mosman, Sydney, was kind enoxigh 

 to hand over to me, for examination, a specimen of this rare 

 New Caledonian bird, which had died after having been in 

 captivity at his home for six months. As this bird belongs 

 to a very aberrant group, and is fast approaching extinction, 

 its intestinal fauna is worthy of some attention. In it, I 

 found numerous very small tapeworms, and abundance of 

 tiny, thin, free segments. The maximum length of the 

 specimens in my possession is 3-7 mm., but, as the final, 

 segments readily fall away, and as the parasites were already 

 dead when I obtained them, the length of the strobila may 

 have been a little greater. The terminal segments, however, 

 contained fully developed oncospheres. The chain consists 

 of a relatively powerful scolex, and a comparatively small 

 number of segments. 



The Scolex. — Situated at the anterior end of the cestode, 

 is the rounded scolex, which is only slightly wider than the 

 succeeding, short, unsegmented neck. The maximum width 

 is about 0-27 mm. The four suckers are large, and well pro- 

 vided with musculature, the breadth being 0014 mm. The 

 openings are directed laterally, and slightly anteriorly. On 

 the apex of the scolex is situated a rather long, retractile 

 rostellum, a cylindrical organ of 0-065 mm., in width, except- 

 ing at the free end, where it becomes swollen to form a knob 



