t)2 SPOLIA ZKYLANICA. 



The diagnosis of this new genus is as follows : — The whole scolex 

 and the anterior body-cuticle is beset closely with fine bristles. 

 No hooks occur on the rostellum. Genital pores lateral, irre- 

 gularly alternating. About fifty testes in each proglottis. The 

 proglottis segmentation hardly recognizable externally. 



Habitat : From the intestine of Varaniis (Hydrosaurus) 

 salvator. Taken at Horana, Ceylon. 



CYSTIGERGI. 

 One bottle contained four or five cysticerci, varying in size 

 between a pea and a Lima bean. Before cutting these I had some 

 hope that they would throw some light on the life-history of 

 BatJiridium jjythunis, since they were taken from the peritoneum 

 of a Cervus axis, a host which falls not unfrequently a prey to 

 Python molurus. Sections, however, showed that we had to do 

 with a Tcenia, with four well-developed suckers and a double 

 row of large hooks, twenty in each circle, alternating with one 

 another. Probably this cysticercus is the larval form of Tcenia 

 marginata, which lives in the intestine of dogs and wolves. 



NEMATODA. 

 ASGARIS RUBICUND A ? Schneider. 

 In the same Python molurus whose duodenum was invested 

 with the Bothridium jiythunis, Blainv., and in the same lung that 

 harboured the Purocephalas moniliforinis, Diesing, was found 

 a nematode. Dr. Von Linstow has been kind enough to examine 

 this specimen, and reports that it is immature and cannot be 

 accurately determined. Probably it belongs to the species 

 mentioned here. 



ACANTHOCEPIIALA. 



EGHINORHYNGHUS ROTUND ATUS, Von Linstow.* 

 The specimens were numerous, some free, but many with their 

 proboscis sunk in the tissue of a piece of the intestinal wall of 

 the host, the jungle crow, Gentropus sinensis. In no specimen 

 which I examined was the proboscis fully extended, always there 

 was an invagination which concealed some of the hooks. 



This parasite was described five years ago by Von Linstow 

 from a Gentropus madagascariensis taken in Madagascar. The 

 Sinhalese specimens came from a bird labelled Gentropus 

 rafipennis^^ Illiger, a species I have not been able to identify in 

 the British Museum Catalogue. 



• Arch. Natufif. (53 Jg., 1897, p. 33. 



j This is the name jjiven to the Common Coucal or Crow-Pheasant ( Aetti- 

 kukkula, Sinh.) in Captain Leg:.e's monograph, p. 260. For a discussion of the 

 synonyms and varieties of this bird Dr. W. T. Blanford's Vol. III., Birds, Fauna 

 Brit. India, 1895, pp. 230-241, may bo consulted. 



