334 Records of the Indian Museum. [Voy XL, 
A single specimen is referred here with some hesitation. A 
definite identification was impossible because the spines were some- 
what damaged. In other details it agreed with Van Beneden’s 
species eschrichtii. The length of the worm isgmm. There were 
only about 13 segments the last of which measured I mm. long. 
LITERATURE. 
Linton, U.S. Fish Comm. Report for 1887, pp. 812-1816, figs. 
5-12 (Washington, 1891). 
Van Beneden, Acanthobothrium eschrichtit. Bull, Acad. Belg., 
Ser. 2, Vol. XVI, p. 280. 
Van Beneden, Calliobothrium eschrichtti. Mem. Acad. Belg., 
Vol. XXV, 1850, pp. 145 and 195. 
Family HYMENOLEPIDIDAE, Railliet and Henry, 1909. 
Genus Hymenolepis, Weinland, 1858. . 
Hymenolepis breviannulata, Fiihrmann, 1906. 
Z.E.V. £875 Phalocrocorax Chilka Lake, T. Southwell. 
javanicus Dec. 1914. 
(the little Cor- 
morant). 
Two specimens, 57 mm. long and 5 mm. broad. Rostellum 
with 20 hooks. 
Fiihrmann in his original description states ‘‘ leider fehlt der 
scolex.”’ 
The genital openings are unilateral and are situated near the 
anterior extremity of the proglottid. 
LITERATURE. 
Fiihrmann, Centrbl. Bakter., 1. Abt. Bd. XLII, Heft 4, pp. 445- 
446, fig 25, 1906. 
Family TAENIIDAE, Ludwig, 1886. 
Genus Diploposthe Jacobi, 1896. 
Diploposthe laevis, Jacobi, 1896. 
Z.E.V, 2874 Nyroca ferina, Chilka Lake, T. Southwell. 
(the Pochard). Noy. 1914. 
A single specimen is referred here with some hesitation. No 
spines could be detected on the rostellum when the head was 
cleared in clove oil. Three testes were observed near the posterior 
border of the proglottides. The vesiculae seminalis is large. The 
cirrus is large, tubular, and armed with strong spines. 
The female genital organs lie inthe centre of the proglottid. 
No other details could be observed save that masses of eggs lay in 
