8 DR. F. E. BEDDARD ON 



\ipon the scolex ; but there is a fine investment of minute 

 spinelets, which are most densely set but are absent from the apex 

 of the scolex. The suckers seem to look upward when in a state 

 of rest. 



Text-fig. 1. 



.R 



s- 



Two sections through the scolex of IclithyotcBnia {Acanthotceyiia) sp. 



The upper figure displaj's the partial protrusion of the rudimentary rostellum (R) 

 permitted (?) by the absence of external spinelets in this region as shown in 

 the figure. The lower figure passes through a sucker (S), and here the covering 

 of spinelets is seen to extend into the interior of the sucker. 



Transverse sections through the scolex (see text-fig. 1) show an 

 anteriorly situated muscular organ comparable with a rostellum. 

 It is rudimentary, and not like that which I describe below as cha- 

 racteristic of the second species of tapeworm from this Varanus. 

 The suckers are borne at the base of the apical cone, and the 

 actual suckers are on processes of the body, and not sessile upon 



