194 MR. F. E, BEDDARD ON A 



13. Contributions to the Anatomy and Systematic Arrange- 

 ment of the Cestoidea. By Frank E. Beddard, M.A., 

 F.R.S., F.Z.S., Prosector to the Society. 



[Received November 1, 1911 : Read November 21, 1911.] 



(Text-figures 19-30.) 



III. On a New Genus of Tapeworms (Otiditcenia) from the 

 Bustard {^upodotis kori). 



An example of the South-African Bustard {Uupodotis kori) 

 on April 27th, 1911, voided a number of white curiously-shaped 

 bodies, the nature of which I did not recognise until they were 

 submitted to microscopic examination. The sha,pe of these bodies 

 may be learnt by an inspection of text-figure 19. They are 

 separate mature proglottids of a tapeworm, of which I obtained 

 complete specimens later (on May 7th), when the bird died. Since 

 the Bustard was acquired by the Society on October 1st, 1910, it 

 seems likely that the infection did not take place in the Society's 

 Gardens, but that the parasites were already present when the 

 bird arrived. 



Text-fig. 19. 



Ripe and detached proglottids of Otiditcenia eupodotidis. 



A most useful and presumably comprehensive list of the tape- 

 worms of birds has been quite recently published by Prof. Fuhr- 

 mann *. From this it would appear that only the following species 

 have been found in the Otidiformes, and that none at all have been 

 met with in Uupodotis kori — if it has been examined from this 



* " Die Cestoden der Vogel," Zool. Jahrb. 1908, Suppl.-Bd. x. 



