2g6 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voi. IX, 



each with two supplemental ciliated pits at the posterior free 

 angles. Proboscides four, terminal, filiform, armed, retractile in 

 neck. Reproductive apertures marginal. 



Larva of Otobothrium insignc, Linton, 1905. 

 Many specimens : — 



Z E V ^^^A Diagratnma crassispi'inni!,'^ P 1 R k 



Serranus undiilosiis, > r- 1 ' 'r c ^u 11 



D 7- , I Ceylon ... 1. bouthwell. 



Balistes sp. ) ■' 



Literature : — 



Linton, 1887. Southwell, 1912. 



(IV) Genus Syndesmobothrium, Diesing, 1854. 



=:SvnbotIn-iitm, Diesing, 1850. 



General characters: — Body articulate, taeniaeform, neck tubu- 

 lar, rounded at base Head tetragonal, with four terminal prom- 

 inent bothridia, attached to head by posterior margin, cruci- 

 formly disposed, oval, slightly curved, joined with each other at 

 the base by a membrane. Proboscides four, filiform, armed, each 

 one running through a bothridium (pedicel) excurrent at apex, 

 lon^, retractile in the neck. Genital apertures marginal (?). 



Syndesmobothrium filicollc, Linton, 1889. 

 Larvae. Few specimens. 



ZEV ^8^. Clupea ilislia. Calcutta. T. Southwell. 



This species was also obtained from the mesenteries of 

 Cybiuni guttatum and Chorinemus lysan in Ceylon waters. 



Literature : — 



Linton, 1887, Southwell, 1912. 



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classificazione dei cestodi. In Atti Soc. Lig. Sci. Nat. e Geogr. 



Genoa, June 1899, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 160-167. 

 Baillet, C, Rech. sur un Cystique polycephale du lapin. In 



Mem. de I' Acad. des. Sc. de Toulouse, 1863 (6), Vol. I, pp. 

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natur. Paris, 1828, T. LVII, pp. 365-625, avec pi, 

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Sci. Nat. Paris, ZooL, Dec. 1848, 3rd ser., Vol. 10, pp. 321- 



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Hymenolepis , Weinland. Paris, 1891 112 pp., 22 figs. 



