PARASITIC WORMS LEI PER AND ATKINSON. 



Parasite. — Most of the .specimens appear comma-shaped, owing to the ventral 

 bending of the anterior portion of the body. The worms taper considerably in front, 

 having their greatest width at the level of the yolk-glands, where the body becomes 

 thick and almost cylindrical. The posterior end is very bluntly rounded. The 

 excretory pore lies at the base of a small dimple. There is no abdomen, nor does 

 the skin appear to be striated, although on the ventral aspect irregular rugae are seen, 

 apparently attributable to the bending of the specimen. The oral sucker (PI. Ill, 

 tig. IS, n) is about half the size of the ventral sucker (/>). The suckers vary considerably 

 in shape and in the thickness of the muscular wall in different specimens. This is due to 

 varying amounts of contraction. A characteristic feature of the oral aperture is a 

 fleshy lip extending around the dorsal but absent from the ventral rim. 



The pharynx is small and globular. The main gut-branches (</) are greatly dilated. 

 They extend to the posterior end of th • body, where they are almost contiguous. 



The yolk-glands (//. //') consist of two half-moon-shaped solid masses lying in 

 apposition, one anterior to the other. The ovary (ov.) is smooth and oval, with the 

 posterior aspect somewhat indented by the yolk-gland. The testes (t, /') are compact 

 rounded bodies K ing slightly diagonally to one another, immediately in front of the 

 ovary. The eggs as seen within the uterus (at) measure <)'04 mm. by 0'02 mm., and 

 are brownish in colour. 



LEPOCREADIINAE. 

 Lepodora, Odhner, 1905. 

 IT). Lepodora, garrardi, Leip. and Atk. (PI. Ill, fig. 20.) 



Lepodora garrardi, Leiper and Atkinson, Proc. Zool. Sac., 1914, p. 224. 



Flat fleshy forms •"> nun. by 0'9 nun. Colour brownish, due to numerous yolk-glands. Skin covered 

 with delicate spines. Ventral sucker 0 - 27 nun., oral sucker (.(-37 nun. Stout pyriform pharynx, 0*2 mm. 

 tiggs few but large. Testes tandem. Gut-branches wide and extending to the. posterior end of the 

 1 lody. 



Host. Two specimens from the intestine oi Trematomuft beviuwchu. 



Parasite. Plat fleshy forms, 3 nun. by 0"9 mm., of a brownish colour, apparently 

 due to the large and numerous yolk-glands, which extend from the level of the 

 bifurcation of the gut to the posterior end oi the body, and inwards also to unite across 

 the body. Delicate spines occur on the skin. The ventral sucker (PL III, tig. 20, />), 

 0"27 mm. in diameter, is slightly smaller than the oral sucker (<i). and lies at the 

 junction of the anterior and middle third of the body. The oral sucker. ()'.">7 mm. in 

 diameter, opens subterminally. There is a prepharynx and a stoutly developed pvriform 

 muscular pharynx, 0'2 mm., succeeded by a slender oesophagus. The two gut-branches 

 (7) are of wide lumen and reach to within 0*] nun. of the excretory opening. The 

 genital orifice ((/p) lies immediately in front of the ventral sucker and is unusuallv 

 obvious. The cirrus is short and fleshy. The globular testes (/. /') lie tandem, and 

 immediatelv in front of them, and sliojhtlv to one side oi the middle line, is a laroe 



