S()!\l!v NEW QUEENSLAND ENDOPAIIASITES/ 



By T. HARYEY JOHNSTON, MA., D.Sc, F I. S. 



I^ioLOGY Department, University, Brisbane. 



(Plates IX. & X.) 



( Read before the Royil Society of Queenslanrt K oven, her 

 nth, 1014 ) 



Sphceruterina punctata n. sp. 

 (PI. IX., figs 1-13.) 



From the intestine of a '' thickhead " or " whistler," 

 Pachycephala rufiventris Lath, shot at Caloimdra, August, 

 1914, there were collected numerous pale translucent 

 cestodes reaching about 4 cm in length, and about 

 .65 mm in maximum breadth. The posterior segments 

 readily separated off from the rest of the strobila owing 

 to the presence of very deep constrictions. E<i.ch ripe 

 proglottid was seen to contain in its anterior half a dark 

 or brownish rounded egg capsule, this " spotted "' appear- 

 -ance suggesting its specific name. 



Scolex. — The scolex, whose breadth is .31 mm, bears 

 prominent suckers and rostellum, capable of being with- 

 drawn into a powerful m uscular rostellar sac. The rostellum 

 is provided with two series of hooks, those in the anterior 

 circlet being larger than those forming the second row, v.ith 

 which they alternate. There are ten or twelve in each 

 series. The hooks of i:.he first circlet are rather wide and 



*Tl.e types ol the new species draciibed in this paper as well as in a 

 former paper, " Notes on snme Entozoa," Proo. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 

 XXIV., 1912, pp. 63-9', haie bee.i dep- sited in the Queensland Musenra, 

 Brisbane. 



