BY GERARD KREFFT, ESQ., F.L.S. 221 



tance of three lines. No ova were obtained, and there is only 

 a single specimen in the Australian Museum collection. 



Habitat : the intestines of the White-headed Stilt (Himan- 

 topus lencoceplialus) . 



TaiNiA Mastersii. 

 fPlate II., figs. 8, 8a, and 8b). 



Head rather small, rounded, not much produced beyond the 

 neck, narrow, with four round and rather indistinct disks. The 

 articulations commence close to the head, gradually enlarging, 

 but not growing much in a vertical direction. Lower margins 

 straight. Four or five deep impressions, forming straight lines, 

 run from the neck to the terminal joints, the outer lines being 

 particularly distinct. Lemnisci were not observed, the specimens 

 appearing all immature, judging from the last rather long and 

 contracted joint ; the " Narbe " (scar) of German authors. 



Total length from 4 to 5 inches, and about one-eighth of an 

 inch wide in the centre of the colony. 



Habitat. The intestines of a species of Wallaby (Hahnaturus) 

 shot by Mr. George Masters in Queensland. 



T^NIA PHALANGIST^. 



(Plate 11., figs. 7, la, 7b, and 7c). 



Head, pear-shaped with four large but not very prominent 

 disks upon the upper surface. The disks are flat and not 

 encircled by a ring. Head otherwise granular, and without spines. 

 The neck is considerably contracted at its commencement, and 

 for the first line, (one-twelfth of an inch) does not show any seg- 

 mentation, it gradually widens out below this point and the joints 

 become distinct. A single specimen is all I possess at present, 

 which is four inches in length. The joints are irregular and 

 distorted, one appears to grow into the other, there are 

 interruptions of the marginal lines, and now and then the 

 joints resemble a series of loops. This state occurs however on 

 the first or anterior half of the colony only. On the remaining 

 portion of the specimen the joints are regular. Some raised 



