NOTES OX MISCELLANEOUS ENDOPARASITES. 



By 

 T. Harvky Johnston, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., Biology Dept., 

 University, Brisbane. 



{Read before the Royal Society of Queensland, 25th November, 



1918). 



Cestoda. 

 Acanthotaenia gallardi Johnston. 

 Last year this cestode was found infesting the mid- 

 region of the intestine of a black snake, Psetcdechis porphy- 

 riacus, killed by Mr. Miinro Hull at Euraundi. In. 

 addition to this parasite, larval cestodes {Sparganum sp.) 

 were found just under the peritoneum of the body cavity. 

 In company with A. gallardi there were numerous isolated 

 individuals of a strongyle, Diaphanocephahis { Kalice- 

 phalus) sp. distributed throughout the greater part of the 

 intestine, while the oesophagus and stomach harboured 

 many Fhysaloptera. No entozoa had been previously 

 reported from this host in Queensland. 



Moniezia trigonophora St. & Hass. 

 This tapeworm was found in January 1918, in numbers 

 in a lamb at Eumundi. It had not been previously reported 

 from Queensland. 



MuUiceps multiceps Leske. 

 Dr. Dodd (1918, p. 502) in a recent address on endo- 

 parasites of live stock referred, to the parasite and made a 

 statement that " the condition Gid is not common in N.S. W." 

 I have not been able to obtain any records of authentic 

 cases of the occurrence of the gid bladder worm, generally 

 known as Coenurus cerehralis, in any part of Australia, all 

 cases of so-called gid being traceable to other causes, 

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