HELMINTHOLOaiCAL NOTES.— JOHNSTON. 



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were collected from the rectum of Hyla ccerulea. All these frogs were captured 

 in the Sydney district, and a record of the finding of cestodes in them was made 

 by Dr. S. J. Johnston (1912, pp. 290, 291). 



A detailed account of this new species is reserved for a future communica- 

 tion, but as the genus is so far known only from a few amphibia from North 

 America, and from the Mediterranean coasts and Central Europe, the record 

 of its occurrence, though apparently rare, in Eastern Australia is important. 



The only adult cestode so far described from Australian Amphibia is 

 Opliiotmnia hylm Johnston (1912, p. 64), from the golden frog, Hyla aurca, from 

 New South Wales. 



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Fig. 18. — A more highly magnified view of a section across the female complex, showing 

 swallowing apparatus (sw. app.), shell-gland {s.g.), receptacxilum seminis (r.s.), ovary (ov.), and 

 fertilising duct or perhaps uterine tube. 



SPARGANUM, sp. 



The Director of this Museum forwarded to me specimens of a larval 

 cestode taken by Mr. H. A. Longman from the subcutaneous tissues of a frilled 

 lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingii, caught near Brisbane. They belong to the same 

 species as those recorded by me (Johnston, 1914, p. 110) from this lizard from 

 North Queensland. 



