go NOTES ON SOME ENTOZOA. 



The temale glands and ducts are very extensive, coils 

 being present close to the anus, while the common uterus 



a wide tube — terminates close to the anterior end, as 



already mentioned. The lower parts of the female canal 

 are crowded with free embryos of the type already 

 described as occurring in the blood. Surrounding the 

 vulva are numerous vaginal glands. The female aperture 

 is very narrow. 



The male is quite small when compared with the 

 female. The tail is spirally rolled. The cloaca lies at 

 •097 mm. from the blunt posterior end. The nerve ring 

 lies at about -130 mm. behind the mouth. A coil of the 

 testis approaches quite closely to the region of the nerve 

 ring. The al* are very small and papillae are poorly 

 represented. There appears to be a pre- anal pair just 

 an tero- laterally to the cloaca, as well as two pair of post- 

 anal papillae just behind the cloaca. T.^e spicules are rather 

 small, the larger being 162 mm. long, slightly curved, 

 £tnd bearing a pointed extremity. The smaller is -081 mm. 

 long, also slightly curved, but its extremity is widened, 

 as often happens in Filariidae. 



The specimens were collected by Dr. Bancroft from 

 the water dragon, Physignathus lesueurii, on the Burnett 

 Kiver, near Eidsvold. 



Oxyspirura anthochmrce, n. sp. 

 (PI. IV ; Figs. 34, 36). 



As far as I am aware, no nematodes have been 

 described as infesting the eyes of native birds in Australia. 

 Krefft (1873, p. 213), recorded the presence of Ascaris sp. 

 from the eye of a gill- bird, Anthochcera carunculata. I 

 have already remarked (1910, p. Ill), that the worms 

 probably belong to the Filariidae. An examination of 

 Krefft's specimens, through the courtesy of the Curator 

 of the Australian :\Iuseum, Sydney, shows them to belong 

 to that family, and apparently to Oxyspirura. In my list 

 of entozoa known to infest Australian birds, I have 

 recorded this form as Ceratospira anthochcBrm (19126, p. 1 11). 

 The position of the female pore is posterior instead of 

 anterior, hence the species must be transferred to 

 Oxyspirura. 



