358 PENTASTOMIDi^ 



so far assumed dangerous proportions. The larva; are very tenacious 

 of life, and wall hatch out worms after two years' drying. 



Heterodera radicicola, Greef. Cucumber and Tomato Eelworm 



This pest has been known for a number of years in this country, 

 and is especially troublesome to tomatoes grown under glass. 



Heterodera schachtii, Schmidt. Beet Eelworm 



This species has been in the country for a long time, but it is 

 the sort of pest that is very seldom noted or recorded. Mr T. W. 

 Kirk informs me recently (191 9) that no specimens have been sent 

 to the Agricultural Department for some years past, which probably 

 only shows that it has not been giving trouble to cultivators. 



ACANTHOCEPHALA 



Family Echinorhynchid^ 



Echinorhynchus gigas, Goeze 



Colonel Reid reports this parasitic worm as occurring in New 

 Zealand pigs. It is usually met with in the small intestine. 



Family Linguatulid^ 

 Linguatula denticulatum, Leuckart 

 Colonel Reid reports this worm as occurring in sheep. 



Linguatula lanceolatum, Frohlich 

 This species is recorded by Colonel Reid from dogs. 



Chjetopoda 

 OLIGOCH^TA 



Family Megascolecid^e^ 



Dichogaster modigliani, Rosa 



This species has been reported to me, but I have failed to record 

 by whom, as occurring in New Zealand. Dr Benham informs me 

 that the only record of a Dichogaster in this country, rests on a state- 

 ment by Ude (1905), that an unnamed species, allied both to D. modi- 

 gliani, and to D. malayana, Horst, was gathered "at Oripi Bush, 

 Tauranga," by a German traveller. He records it merely as Dicko- 



^ A. Nichols, in Acclimatisation of SalmomdfS at the Antipodes at p. 46, says of 

 the shipment of salmon ova made to Port Chalmers in the 'Mindora' in 1869: 

 "a living worm was found among the moss in which the eggs were packed, and 

 was 'acclimated.'" Dr Benham suggests that this was probably an Euchytroeid. 



