1905.] MR. A. E. SHIPLEY ON ENTO-PARASITES. 249 



Three specimens h'om the kings of a Tiger in the Zoological 

 Gardens. 



This species was first described by Kerbert from a Royal Tiger 

 in the Gardens at Amsterdam. He states they were found, two at 

 a time, in pockets in the lungs, which were mostly situated near 

 the surface. It is a not uncommon human parasite in the East, 

 and was first found by Ringer in the bronchi of a man who 

 came from Formosa. It is met with in China and Korea, and is 

 especially common in Japan, where it gives rise to much pulmonary 

 mischief. It is also recorded from Korth America, probably 

 imported. Besides the tiger and man, it has been recorded from 

 the pig, the dog, and the cat. 



AOANTHOOEPHALA. 



ECHINOIIHYNCHUS SPIRULA OlferS. 



Diesing, Syst. Helm. ii. p. 21. 



A considerable collection of specimens of this species of Echino- 

 rhynchus was sent me from the following animals : — (i.) Pero- 

 dicticihs poUo Bosnian, or Bosman's Potto, found in the Y/est 

 Coast of Africa, the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Gaboon ; 

 (ii.) Lemur coronatus Gray, the Crowned Lemur, from Madagascar ; 

 and (iii.) Lemur hrunneus v. d. Hoeven, the Black-headed Lemur. 

 The latter is the name give?i in the ' Catalogue of the Animals 

 in the Zoological Gardens,' but I have been unable to find it 

 or any synonym for it in Ti'ouessai't's great catalogue *. 



This species of parasite is recorded in von Linstow's ' Com- 

 pendium der Helminthologie ' as occurring in Inuus ecaudatus 

 Geoft'r. {= Pithecus innims L., vide Trouessart's ' Catalogus 

 Mammalium,' Berlin, 1898-1899, p. 26), from Gibraltar and 

 Northern Africa, and from Cehus fatuellus Erxleben, from S. 

 America. Railletf points out that Leuckart considered this 

 species may be the same as the E. hominis Lambl., which was 

 found, in one instance only, in the small intestine of a child of 

 nine years of age who died at Prague in 1857. 



PENTASTOMIDA. 



POIIOCEPHALUS CROTALI (Humboldt). 



EehlnorliyncJius crotcdi Humboldt. 



Distoma crotcdi Humboldt. 



Polystoma proboscideum Rudolphi. 



Linguatida proboscidea van Beneden. 



Pentastomimi moniliforme Diesing, Megnin (in parte). 



Linguatida quad7'ii(,ncinata Meyei-. 



Pentastomum ivij^eratoris Macalistei-. 



Pentastomvjm jyroboscideuvi Rudolphi. 



* [The Lemurs which have been almost continuously exhibited at the Gardens 

 for many years under the name of Lemur brunneus v. d. Hoeven are almost 

 certainly identical with L. mongoz var. nigrifrons M.-Edw. et Grandidier. See 

 Sclater, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 231.— P. C. M.] 



f ' Zoologie Medicale et Agricole.' Paris, 1895. 



