"42 MR. E. WARD ON A NEW BIRD OF PARADISE. [Nov. 18,. 



wording of his communication. Mr. Coughtrey has since left Liver- 

 pool for New Zealand, whence, in due time, I hope to receive from 

 him further entozoal contributions. The nematode from the larynx 

 was probably an example of Ascaris osculata ; but the Heematozoa 

 from the heart are, I believe, new to science. I have named the 

 species as above, the specific title chosen having reference to the 

 blunted extremity of the tail. In brief, the characters may there- 

 fore stand as follows : — Body of nearly uniform thickness, narrow- 

 ing slowly in front and behind ; head simple in both sexes, semi- 

 circular in profile ; tail of the female straight, rather suddenly nar- 

 rowing to a fine rounded point ; tail of the male spirally curved, 

 furnished with two unequal spicules, blunt at the tip, where it forms 

 a small knob. Length of the female 6 inches ; male, up to 4 inches. 

 In addition to the above diagnosis, I may add that the head of 

 the female suddenly curves forward from a point where it measures 

 about -g-'^ inch transversely, whilst the tail, at a corresponding dis- 

 tance from the extremity, does not exceed the T ^ inch in diameter. 

 The knob-like projection at the end of the tail of the male measures 

 only y^js mc h m breadth. As usual, in similar cases, I found the 

 uterine ducts crowded with ova in various degrees of development, all 

 of the most advanced embryos being included in a delicate chorional 

 envelope. The position of the vulva could not be made out ; but the 

 embryos (figs. 12 & 13) were taken from the oviduct at a distance 

 of one inch from the head. The long diameter of the ova gave an 

 average of ^hs inch, the embryos having a length of ^ inch, or 

 thereabout, the greatest breadth scarcely exceeding that of the 

 human red blood-corpuscle. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXIV. 



Fig. 1. Filaria horrida, male: nat. size. 



2. The same, female : head and tail, nat. size. 



3. The same : outline of the oral spines, enlarged. 



4. Ova of the same, highly magnified. 



5. Filaria immitis: female, nat. size. 



6. The same : male, nat. size. 



7. The same : tail of the male, enlarged. 



8. Ovum of the same: mag. about 500 diam. 



9. Filaria hebetata : female, nat. size. 



10. The same : male, nat. size. 



11. Tail of the same: male, enlarged. 



12. Ovum of the same: mag about 350 diam. 



13. Embryo of the same, set free. 



5. Description of a new Bird of Paradise of the genus 

 Epimachus. By Edwin Ward, F.Z.S. 



[Received October 18, 1873.] 



About the end of September last I received from Singapore a col- 

 lection of New-Guinea birds, amongst which there was a skin of a new 

 species of the Paradiseine group. I have the pleasure of exhibiting 



