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The above Cestodes do not appear to be common. This applies 

 especially to the first and last, A. mamillana being quite rare. A. 

 plicata may grow to much larger dimensions than that given in 

 most descriptions of this worm, some that I have examined 

 reaching fourteen and a half inches in length by one and a quarter 

 in breadth. 



4. EcJiiuococctis veterinorum, Ru4. (E. polymorphic?, Dies.) — 



kidney, f Sweet, loc. cit., p. 506 (Vict.) I have examined 

 specimens collected by Dr. Cleland from a horse at Berry, 

 N.S. Wales.* 



Nematoda : — 



5. Ascaris megalocephaki, Cloq — small intestine. f Perrie, Agr. 



Gaz. N. S.Wales, iii., 1892, p. 821 (N. S. Wales- : Johnston, 

 Ibid., xx., 1909, p. 583, 584 (Fiji*, N. S. Wales*) : f Brown, 

 Australian, 1897, ii., p. 224 (Vict. 1) : f Sweet, loc. cit., p. 514 

 (Vict.) : f Desmond, loc. cit, vii., 1903-4, p. 570 ; ix., 1905-6, 

 p. 252 (S. Austr.) : f von Linstow, Arch. Naturg., Ixiii., 



1897, p. 282 (Bismarck Archpgo.) : W. Austr. 



(informed by Dr. Cleland). 



6. Oxyuris curvula, Rud. — large intestine, j Perrie, Agr. Gaz. 



N. S. Wales, iii., 1892, p. 822 (N. S. Wales) : Johnston, 

 ibid., xx., 1909, p. 583 (N.S. Wales*, Tas.*). 

 The variety often termed 0. mastic/odes, Nitzsch, I have taken 

 near Bathuist, New South Wales. Johnston, loc. cit., p. 583. 



7. Sderostomum equinum, Muller, (syn. Strongylus armatus, 



Rud.) — caecum, large intestine, intestinal muscles, arteries. 

 f Perrie, Agr. Gaz. N. S.Wales, iii., 1892, p. 821 (N. S. Wales): 

 f Desmond, Journ. Agr. Ind. S. Austr., viii., 1904-5, p. 569, 

 and ix., 1905-6, p. 952 (S. Austr.): f Brown, Agr. Journ. 

 Vict, iii., 1905, p. 144 (Vict,). 

 This so-called species has been shown by Looss to contain a 

 number of distinct species, some of which are mentioned below. 



8. Sderostomum edentalum, Looss. — stomach and intestine. 



j Sweet, loc. cit., p. 507 (Vict.) : Johnston, loc. cit., p. 583 

 (N. S.Wales*). 



9. Sclerostomum vulgare, Looss — stomach, intestine, f Sweet, 



loc. cit., p. 508 (Vict.). 



10. Sclerostomum 8p. — stomach. f Weir, Agr. Journ. Vict., ii., 



1904, p. 242 (Vict.). 



11. Triodontojihuriis intermedins, Sweet — stomach, intestine (.';. 

 f Sweet, loc. cit., p. 511 (Vict). 



