152 ME. A. E. SHIPLEY ON THE [June 16, 



terminally, but rather from the side, where it is overtopped by 

 the anterior end, and looks like a little head sunk in one of the 

 enormous collars in vogue at the Regency period. The nvimber 

 of hooks is veiy small, only 4-5 rings, and but few hooks in a ring. 

 At first I thought that the smallness of the number of the 

 hooks indicated that we had to do with a young, or, at any rate, a 

 not fully grown, individual, bvit the Itimen of the trvmk was 

 crowded with ova in well- developed chitinous egg-shells. Each 

 ovum is a long cell, rounded at the ends with a conspicuous nucleus 

 in the centre. The egg-shell is rather more pointed at the ends, 

 so that the egg with its shell forms a spindle-shaped object some 

 •08 mm. in length and '02 mm. at the greatest diameter. 



Echinorhynchus tigrince, n. sp. 



Length 10 mm., average breadth 2 mm. Greyish, transversely 

 wrinkled. Proboscis short, small, arising from behind the anterior 

 end. Four or five rings of very few hooks. Ova spindle-shaped, 

 0*8 mm. X "02 mm. 



Habitat. Intestine of Bana tigrina Daud. Taken at Biserat, 

 Jalor. 



Some small fragments of another Echinorhynchus, too small to 

 admit of identification, were taken from the intestine of the toad 

 Calhda pulchra Gray. 



NEMATOMORPHA. 



Professor Camerano has kindly described the specimens of this 

 very difiicult gxoup and has published accounts, with full details 

 as to the structure of the cuticle on which the classification of these 

 creatures so largely rests, of four species, two of which, Chordodes 

 siamensis and Gordi%(,s paro^ice, are new. I extract the following 

 from Camerano's descriptions : — 



1 . Chordodes montoni Camer. 



1895. L. Camerano, Bull. Soc. Zool, France, xx. p. 99. 



1897. L. Camerano, Mem. Ace. Torino, ser. 2, xlvii. p. 387. 



1899. L. Camerano, Atti Ace. Torino, xxxiv. figs. 3, 3 a. 



1901. L. Camerano, Boll. Mus. Torino, xvi. no. 408. 



A single specimen, a male, was taken by Mr. Laidlaw whilst 

 making its exit from a large Mantis captured at the foot of Gunong 

 Inas,_ Perak. The length could not be determined, as the worm 

 was in pieces. The colour of the spirit-specimen is white at each 

 end, black and velvety in the middle. 



The cuticle showed the characteristic markings described by the 

 author in the first-named specimen, which came from China, other 

 specimens have been described from Perak. 



