212 Dr. M. Klialil on soyne 



roadside Jiear Ccddliarltoiiv Farm, Wye. M. ITeniy W. 

 Broli'iiiaiui was kind cnouj2;l» to identify tlic spocies for ine in 

 tlic first instance, and T tender liim my best thanks. 



The ori_i!;inal description was as Stromjyhsoma italicum, 

 Latzel, IS'SG, Bull. Eiit. Ital. xviii. p. 308'. 



Some References. 



Tollman, C. IT. 1888. " A rreliniiiiarv List of tho ^rj'riapotln of 



Arkan.'s.'U!, with Ppscriptions of now Species.'' Entoinolofricn 



Americana, iv. pp. 1-8. (Reprinted, 1898, in Bull. xlvi. U.S.Nat. 



Mas. pp. 73-80.) 

 Mauck, a. V. liXll. "On the Swarminfrnnd Variation in a Myriapod 



{Fo»fana virf/inieusis).'' Anier. Nat. xxxv. pp. 477-478. 

 OiiMKRon, E. A. 1886. IVinth Report on Injnrious Insects. 



, 1895. Eitrhteenth Report on Injurious Insfcts. 



l*Aszi,AvszKY, J. 1870. " ^Iassenliafte>! Er.scheinen von Tausond- 



fii.^slern.'" Verli. der k. k. zool.-bottiu. Gcs. in Wieu, xxviii. 



pp. o4o-552. 

 SiNTLAin, F. G. 1904. "The Myriapoda of Canibrid^cshiro." In the 



Natural Ilistorv of Cambridgeshire, ed. Man* ana Shipley (Canib. 



Univ. I'ress), pp. 184-192. 

 Stanpkx, R. 1921. " The Woodlice and other Crustacea of Derbyshire 



and Staffordshire . . ." Lanes. & Ches. Nat. xiii. pp. 1:50-1.38. 

 Veiihokff, K. W. 1900. " Wandernde Doppelfiissler, Eisenbahnziige 



henimeud." Zool. Anz. xxiii. pp. 4G5-473. 



Oth .Tanuarv, 1022. 



XXIV. — A Pi-eliminary Note on some new Nematode Para- 

 sites from the Elephant. By M. Kiialil, M.D., D.P.H., 

 D.T.M. &H.* 



Pteridopharynx, Lane, 1921. 

 Pteridopharynx anisn, sp. n. 



'Miiie is 14-15 ram. long and 0*46 mm. in breadth. 



Female is 16"5-17 mm. in length and '65 mm. in breadth. 



Cutiele is striated. External leaf-crown consists of abont 

 20 leaflets. There are 4 head-papillrc. Mouth-capsule 

 pear-shaped. (Esophagus is •45-'5~ ram. in length. The 



* From tho Ilelmintholoojcal Departnaent, London School of Tropical 

 Medicine, ReceiAed for publication 9th Jnuuarv. 1922. 



