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0,5 mm), and oiily the foremost thiii and elongated portion just beliind 

 the scülex is tiattened, the latter has four peculiar leaf-formed suckors. 

 In their present (contracted) condition , the largest specimens are 

 scarcely 100 mm in length, and up to 4,5 mm in breadth. 



The discovery of an intestinal worm in this phytophagous mammal 

 is not without interest. That is belongs to a hitherto unknown spe- 

 cies, appears to be without doubt. 



Ordo Monotremata. 

 Farn. Echidnidae. 



51. JEchidna aculeata (Shaw) 1792. 



Myrmecophuga aculeata Shaw, Natur. Mise. vol. III, pl. 109 (1792). 

 Echidna avuleula Waterh., Nat. Hist. Mamm. vol. I, p. 41 (1846). 

 Echid/ia acunthion Coll., in: Forh. Vid. Selsk. Christiania 1884, No. 13 



(1884); Froc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885, p. 150, PI. X. (1885). Typus. 

 Echidna aculeata, typica, Thomas, in: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885, p. 338 



(1885) 



A. Young male, Rockhampton, July 1881 (skin with skeleton). 



B. Female, Coomooboolaroo, Febr. 1884 (skin with skeleton). 



C. Female, Coomooboolaroo, Febr. 1884 (skin with skeleton). 



D. Coomooboolaroo, Febr. 1884 (skeleton). 



E. Male, Coomooboolaroo, Febr. 1884 (skin with skeleton). 



F. Male, Coomooboolaroo, Febr. 1884 (skin with skeleton). 



G. Female, Coomooboolaroo, Febr. 1884 (skin with skeleton). 

 H. Female, Coomooboolaroo, Febr. 1884 (skin with skeleton). 



I. Female, Coomooboolaroo, Marts 1884 (skin with skeleton). 



Nine specimens of this species, which is commonly distributed over 

 a considerable portion of East and N. Queensland, were in the collec- 

 tion; the largest (I) was a female, with fully developed mammae. 

 In the coast ranges, covered with dense scrub near Herbert River, it 

 was also common. It was called „Gombian" by the natives; it was 

 tracked by the tamed dingos, and was considered a great delicacy 

 on account of its fatness. 



Of the 8 specimens, the sex of which can be determined, 3 are 

 males, 5 females; I cannot detect any character, except the spur on 

 the heel, by which the sexes can be distiuguished externally. 



For comparison with these specimens from Queensland, I had, at 

 their arrival, only a Single mounted specimen, as well as a skeleton, 



