214 NOTES ON MISCELLANEOUS ENDOPARASITES. 



Pneumonema tiliquce Johnston. 

 This worm Avas collected recently from the lungs of 

 Tiliqua scincoides on Facing Island (Port Curtis) and in 

 the Brisbane District. 



Oxyuris tetraptera Nitzsch, 

 Now recorded from Queensland for the first time, 

 having been found in Mus musculus and in Epimys nor- 

 vegicus. In the latter case onl}- one worm, a mature female, 

 was collected. This constitutes the first record of the 

 presence of the nematode in the brown rat which is not 

 mentioned by Dr. Hall (1916) as a host. The specimen 

 (collected by Miss B. B. Taylor, Sept., 1918, Brisbane) 

 agrees in all particulars with the accoxuit of the species 

 given b}' Hall. 



Cheilospirura nasuta Rud. 

 I am indebted to Miss G. Y. James, B.Sc. for specimens 

 of this worm collected from the urodaeum of a domestic 

 fowl at West Burleigh, 1918 — not previously recorded from 

 this State. 



Habronema rnuscce Carter. 



The occurrence of the adult stage of H. muscce in 

 Australian horses has not yet been recorded, though its 

 presence could be inferred, since the larval stage has been 

 reported to be present in certain flies in N.S.W. and Queens- 

 land (Johnston, 1912). The life history has been care- 

 fully followed by Ransom (1913). 



Bull recently published an interesting account of the 

 occurrence of certain tumoiirs or granulomata in horses, 

 caused by larval Habronema in Victoria and South Australia 

 (1916). He believed " swamp cancer " of horses in the 

 Northern Territory to be another form of " habronemiasis." 

 He did not know to which of the three species of Habronema 

 infesting the horse these larvae ])elonged. 



I have re-examined my material labelled as " Spiroptera 

 microstoma " and have found that although Habronema 

 microstoma appears to be the commoner form in material 

 collected in Sydney and Brisbane, H. muscce was also 

 present in small numbers. Specimens collected in Melbourne 

 many years ago ]>y Mr. A. S. Le Soeuf, on re-examination 



