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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 342. 



Zoological Results based on Material from Neiv 

 Britain, Neiv Guinea, Loyalty Islands and else- 

 ivhere, collected during the years 1865, 1896 

 and 1897, by Arthur Willey. Cambridge, 

 Eng., the University Press. 4to. Part V. 

 December, 1900. Pp. 531-690; pis. LIV.- 

 LXXIV. 



The fifth installment of Dr. Wiiley's 'Zoo- 

 logical Results ' contains six papers, one of 

 which deals with ccelenterates, two with worms, 

 two with crustaceans, and one with vertebrates. 

 The first of these is by E. M. Pratt who de- 

 scribes the soft parts of the rare coral Neohelia 

 porcellana. This species, which was previously 

 known only from material obtained by the 

 Challenger, belongs to the Oculinidse, and as 

 all its nearest relatives are fossils the impor- 

 tance of supplementing the earlier description of 

 Moseley by a full account of its anatomy as 

 given in the present paper is obvious. 



The parasitic worms gathered by Dr. Willey 

 were studied by A. E. Shipley who found that 

 the collection contained seventeen species, nine 

 of which were new. Two were trematodes and 

 of these sufficient matejial was obtained of 

 Monostomum trigonocephalum to enable Shipley 

 to give a very full description. of the anatomy of 

 this form. Of the seven species of tapeworms 

 six were new ; two of minute size were taken 

 from the intestine of a ray, one each from the 

 digestive tract of a lizard, a snake, a fruit-eating 

 pigeon and an albatross. Of the six species of 

 round worms only one was new. Two speci- 

 mens, however, were particularly interesting 

 because of new light thrown on their geograph- 

 ical distribution. Physaloptera obtusissima had 

 previously been recorded only from South Am- 

 erican snakes, but apparently it also infests the 

 native snakes of New Britain, and P. retusa, 

 previously found only in Brazilian lizards, is 

 now for the first time recorded from New 

 Britain. A new species of Gordius and a new 

 representative of the family Linguatulidse are 

 described. 



The nemertines are reported upon by R. C. 

 Punnett. Six of the twelve species collected 

 were new. Five belong to the genus Eupolia 

 whose headquarters seems to be the Malay 

 archipelago. A new species, Carinestaorientalis, 

 on the other hand, is the first Protonemertine 



to be recorded from regions outside the Atlantic 

 and Mediterranean. 



The extensive collection of lower crustaceans 

 contains, according to T. R. R. Stebbing, forty- 

 six species, of which twenty-three are new. 

 Eight of these represent new genera. Of special 

 interest is Panaietis incamerata, a semi-para- 

 sitic copepod occurring in the pallial chamber 

 of gastropods, and Anchicaligus nautili, a para- 

 sitic copepod infesting the mantle chamber of 

 Nautilus pompilius and certain slimy portions of 

 the shell of N. macromphalus. 



The young of the robber crab, Birgus latro, 

 have been made the subject of a short but in- 

 teresting report by L, A. Borradaile. The 

 adult robber crabs are land animals living some 

 distance from the coast and, according to report, 

 have been supposed to bring forth young re- 

 sembling the parent. Thus it has been sur- 

 mised that their development was without the 

 larval metamorphosis usually characteristic of 

 other crustaceans. Direct evidence of this 

 has been wanting, for accurate observers have 

 not heretofore happened on the crabs in the 

 breeding season. Dr. Willey, however, reports 

 the capture close to the sea of females with 

 large masses of brown eggs attached to their 

 abdominal appendages. An examination of 

 this material showed that the young hatched as 

 in allied species, in the zosea stage. When 

 hatching begins the females presumably shake 

 the young off in the water. The further de- 

 velopment of Birgus is without doubt accom- 

 panied by a metamorphosis as in other hermit 

 crabs. 



G. A. Boulenger describes a new blind snake, 

 Typlilops willeyi, from the island of Lifu. This 

 is of interest since it is only the second species 

 of land snake recorded from this island. 



G. H. Parker. 



Ergehnisse der neueren Sporozoenforschung. M. 



LiJHE. Jena, Gustav Fischer. Price, 2 M. 80. 



Liihe's summary of the results of more re- 

 cent investigations on Sporozoa is practically a 

 revised reprint of his articles which recently ap- 

 peared in the Centralblatt fiir Bakteriologie, Para- 

 sitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten, Volumes 

 XXVII. and XXVIII., and represents a sum- 

 mary of the zoological data contained in nu- 



