290 Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. IX, 



lyiterature : — 



Southwell, 1913- See also Friis, 1870. Fuhrmann, 1908. Fuhrmann, 

 1909. 



The occurrence of a species of Ophryocotyle in a fish is 

 remarkable, as this genus has, up to the present, only been 

 recorded from birds. The species is placed provisionally in this 

 genus pending a more careful anatomical examination than has 

 been found possible up to the present. 



Family TAENIIDAE, Ivudwig, 1886. 



Family diagnosis: — Taenioidea. Scolex usually with well- 

 developed rostellum, armed with a double crown of hooks, rarely 

 with rudimentary unarmed rostellum. Suckers unarmed. Gravid 

 segments longer than broad. A single set of reproductive organs 

 in each segment. Genital pores irregularly alternate. Vas defer- 

 ens coiled. Seminal vesicle absent. Testicles numerous, usually 

 very numerous, and scattered throughout the medullary paren- 

 chyma, except in the posterior median portion, occupied by the 

 double ovary, posterior of which is the double yolk gland. Uterus 

 with median stem, and, when fully developed, with lateral 

 branches. Eggs with a thin outer membrane, and a thick brown 

 radially-striated inner shell. Adults in mammals and birds. 



Type-genus Taenia^ Linnaeus, 1758. 



Genus Taenia, Linnaeus, 1758. 



Generic diagnosis : — Taeniidae, with the characters of the 

 family. Adult in mammals and birds. 



Type-species Taenia solium, Linnaeus, 1758. 



(i) Taenia saginata (Goeze, 1782), Leuck., 1867. 

 Two specimens : — 



ZEV i-V"- Man. Calcutta. Major L. Rogers, I. M.S. 



ZEVi4?-C>. Man. Calcutta. ? 



Synonymy : — 



Taoiia soliinii var. medtocaiiellafa, Kuech., 1854. 

 deiitata, Batsch, 1786. 



tropica (Schmidtmueller, 1847), Moq.-Tandon, i860. 

 niediocanellata, Kuechenmeister, 1852. 

 cuctirbitiiia, Pallas, 1766. 

 inei'mis, Laboulbene, 1876. 

 lata, Moq.-Tandon, i860. 



Literature : — 



Goeze, 1782. Leuckart (Hoyle's translation), 1886. 



(ii) Taenia solium, Linnaeus, 1758. 

 One specimen, fragmented. 



ZE\ ^^fi"". Man. Calcutta. V 



