238 AUSTRALIAN REPTILIAN ENTOZOA 



6 i., Proteocephalus gallardi, Johnston, 1911 a, p 175 

 (from various districts of New South Wales and 

 from Gippsland, Victoria). Previously recorded 

 as Ichthyotaenia sp. (Johnston, 1910 a, p. xi. ; 

 p. xviii.) 



This tapeworm also infests the Tiger Snake, Notechis 

 scutatus (Sydne}^ district). 



ii., Sparganum sp. Larval forms of a Bothriocephalid 

 have been taken by me from the subperitoneal 

 tissues (Sydney). 



c Hemiurus sp., from the intestine. Also previously 

 recorded from Denisonia superba (Johnston, 1910 

 a, p. xviii) under the synonym Apohlema (Sydney 

 district). 



d Diaphanocephalus sp. {Kalicephalus sp.) from the 

 alimentary tract (Sydney). 



e Echinorhynchus sp., Johnston, 1909 c, p. 590. From 

 the rectum. A common parasite (Hawkesbury 

 River ; Sydney). 



/ Porocephalus teretiusculus (Baird). 



This parasite infests the lungs of some of our venomous 

 snakes and has generally been referred to as Pentastomum 

 teretiusculum. Baldwin Spencer (1888, p. 110) first recorded 

 it from the host from King Island as Pentastomum sp., but 

 later (1892, p. 1) gave a full account of it under Baird's 

 name. (Victoria.) Shipley (1898, p. 77) summarised 

 Spencer's and Baird's accounts. I here record the occur- 

 rence of the parasite in Xew South Wales (Blue Mountains). 



10. PsEUDECHis AUSTRALis, Gray. A Northern Black Snake, 

 a Hcemogregarina hancrojti, Johnston & Cleland, 1911 a, 

 p. 486. Films kindly forwarded bj^ Dr. T. L. Ban- 

 croft, from Eidsvold, Burnett River, Queensland. 

 h i. Proteocephalus sp. (Eidsvold, Burnett River. 

 This c est ode is closely related to but not identical 

 with, P. gallardi, but a tapeworm which I have taken from 

 Denisonia superba belongs to the same species as the parasite 

 from this host. 



ii. Sparganum. sp. 



From the mesentery collected from a snake, forwarded 

 by Dr. Bancroft. (Eidsvold, Burnett River). 



