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tion of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Towns- 

 ville, obtained in North Queensland from the gray Goshawk, 

 Astur clarus ( A. cinereus Vieill). I desire to thank Dr, 

 A. Brienl, the director of the Institute, for giving me the 

 opportunity to examine his specimens. 



The echinorhynch which was mentioned as having been 

 found in Ninox boobook (collected by Dr. Bancroft in the 

 Eidsvold District— T.H.J. , 1912) is also a typical Centro- 

 rhynchus sp. 



Echinorhynchus rotundocapitatus Johnston. 

 The presence of this parasite in Pseudechis poijihy- 

 riacus in Queensland is now recorded for the first time ; 

 my specimens having been taken from the black snake 

 already referred to as having been killed in the Eumundi 

 district. It frequents the lower three quarters of the 

 intestine though generally more abundant in the rectum. 



Hormorhynchus hirundinaceus ( Gigantorhynchus gigas 

 Goeze). 

 This is met with occasionally in pigs in south-eastern- 

 Queensland — not previously reported from this State. • 



LiNGUATULIDA. 



Porocephalus teretiusculus Baird. 

 A black snake Pseudechis porphyriacus from Eumundi 

 — referred to earlier in this paper — m as foimd to be para- 

 sitised by the above pentastome, the females being distributed 

 in the lung, while the small males were found at the 

 extremity of the organ. This constitutes the first record 

 of the presence in Queensland of the entozoon, which is 

 now known to infest the following Australian snakes— 

 Pseudechis porphyriacus, Denisonia superba, Diemenia 

 textilis and D. reticulata. I have specimens taken from the 

 tiger snake Notechis scutatus (Blue Mountains, N.S.W.). 

 Its known range extends from Western Australia to Southern 

 Queensland and to the islands of Bass Strait. 



Lingualula serrata Frol. 

 The larval stage, generally known as Pentastomum 

 denticulatum, is now definitely recorded as occurring in the 



