94 SPOLIA ZBYLANICA. 



and extends forwards below the oesophagus, 5 length of latter 

 the short tail is conical, ^■^ of the body length. 



The Ascaridae hitherto known from crocodiles are as follows : — 



Ascaris helicina, Molin ;* lips with intermediate lips, the pulp 

 gives rise in front to two spheres with forked processes ; body 

 spirally involute ; North America. 



A. agiUs,Wedl.;'\ lips with dentigerous ridges (Zahnleisten), 

 narrow at the base ; pulp with three roundish projections : body 

 spirally involute ; Egypt. 



A. lancoolata, Molin ;J lips with two semi-circular dentate 

 ridges in front ; North and South America. 



.4. tenuicolUs, Rud., from North and South America, has been 

 so defectively described that it is impossible to recognize the 

 species. 



5. — Ascaris inystax. Zed. 



Habitat : Cants fandliaris, L. ; passed by a young sucking 

 puppy, Colombo ; also from intestine of young Felis pardus, L., 

 Wirawila. 



C/» A. Railliet, Traite de zoologie medicale et agricole, Paris, 

 1895, pp. 402-405, fig. 265. 



6. — Ascaris oituioru/n, Goeze, 

 = A. vituii^ Neumann. 



Habitat : Bos indicus, L. ; passed by a young calf of four to six 

 months, Colombo. 



Of. G. Neumann, Revue veterinaire, Toulouse, 1883, pp. 1-20, 

 pi, III.-IV. 



[Collected and presented to the Colombo Museum by G. W. 

 Sturgess, Esq., M.R.C.V.S.] 



Physaloptera. 



Two lateral lips at the head end, surrounded by a circular cuti- 

 cular sheath ; the musculature is of the type of Schneider's 

 Polymyaria ; the gfenus belongs to the Secernentes ; at the caudal 

 extremity of the male there is a lancet-shaped or bean-shaped 

 bursa ; the two cirri of the male are unequal ; on each side of the 

 cloacal aperture at the tail end, four stalked papillae, median 

 and unptalked papillae in varying numbers. 



* Cf. V. Drasche, Verhandl. d. k. k. zool-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, XXXII., 1S82, 

 p. 120, tab. IX., fig. 9. 



t Wedl, Sitzun^sber. d. k. k. Ak;id. d. Wissonsch. mathem. naturw. Classt-. 

 Wien, Bd. XLIV., ISfil. p. +«7, tab. I.-IL, figs. 1'2-16. 



X V. Drasche, I.e., p. 13.3, tab. X., figs. 5-11. 



