194 SPOLIA ZEYLANIOA, 
SOME REMARKS ON THE OCCURRENCE OF CESTODES 
IN CEYLON.* 
* 
By T. SourHweti, A.R.C.Sc. (Lond.), F.L.S., F.Z.8., 
Scientific Adviser to the Ceylon Company of Pearl Fishers, Limited, and 
Inspector of Pearl Banks. 
HERE are few groups of animals in Ceylon concerning which 
a so little is known as the Cestoda. As far as I have been 
able to ascertain, prior to 1902 only the following Cestodes were 
recorded :— 
Tenia soium, Rud., from man. 
Tenia saginata (?), Goeze = Tania mediocancellata, Kuch., 
from man. 
Dipylidium caninum, L. = Tenia elliptica, Batsch. = Tenia 
cucumerina, Bloch., from dog. 
Tenia saginata has since been definitely identified. 
In consequence of the visit of Professor Herdman to the Pear] 
Banks in 1902, fifty-two new species were described by Shipley and 
Hornell in Herdman’s ‘‘ Ceylon Reports.” Since that time nine 
other new species, also from marine fish, have been described in Part 
V., ‘‘ Ceylon Marine Biological Reports,” and a further seventeen 
new species from the same source are now being described by the 
writer. ; 
Castellani and Chalmers (‘‘ Manual of Tropical Medicine,” 1910) 
report the occurrence of a single case of Hchinococcus granulosus, 
Batsch., but this was probably imported from South Africa. 
Twelve other species (eleven new) were recorded by Von Linstow 
(Spolia Zeylanica, Vol. III., Part XI., 1906), and seven species 
(including one Cysticercus) were recorded by Shipley (Spolia 
Zeylanica, Vol. I., Part IIT., 1903). 
The total number of Cestodes reported from Ceylon up to the 
present is therefore 100, described as under :— 
Seventy-eight species from marine fish (‘‘ Ceylon Reports” and 
‘“ Ceylon Marine Biological Reports’); two species from man; 
one species from dog; and the following list :— 
Hymenolepis septarai, v. Lins., from Upupa ceylonensis. 
——-——— clausa, v. Lins., from Dendrocygna javanica. 
——_——— spinosa, v. Lins., from Rostratula capensis. 

* From the Ceylon Marine Biological Laboratory (Ceylon Company of 
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