Verm . 1 
VERMES. 
BY 
F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., F.R.M.S., F.Z.S. 
For a general account of the Embryology of the forms included here 
in this group, see F. M. Balfour’s Treatise on Comparative Embryology 
(London: 1880), vol. i. Dicyemidm and Orthonectidce, pp. 108-112; 
Platyhelminthes, pp. 156-180 ; Rotifera^ pp. 183-185 ; Annulata, pp. 264- 
293 ; Gephyrea, pp. 294-303 ; Chcctognatha^ p. 306 ; Nematohelminthes, 
pp. 307-313 ; Acanthocephali, pp. 313-315 ; and Enteropneusta, pp. 482- 
485. 
On the reproduction of certain Vermes in a state of captivity ; see MT. 
z. Stat. Neap. ii. p. 172. 
A list of the fresh-water Vermes that live in salt water is given by 0. 
Semper (Animal Life : London [1881]), p. 433 ; of marine Annelids in 
fresh water, p. 436. 
Vermes of Barents Sea; D’Urban, Ann. N. H. (5) vi. pp. 261 & 271. 
Some Annelids known from the North and Arctic seas found in 
Japanese seas ; Grube, JB. schles. Ges. Ivi. pp. 228-231. 
Seguenza has lists of the tertiary Vermes of Calabria in Atti Acc. 
Rom. (3) vi. Mem. Sci. fis. pp. 42, 53, 61, 78, 79, 126, 127, 195, 196, 293, 
294, 327, & 367. 
Krukenbero, in his VergL-physiol. Studien an den Kiisten der Adria, 
i. (Heidelberg: 1880), gives an account of the effects of certain drugs on 
Jlirudo officinalis (pp. 82-116). 
For Italian literature of Vermes, see Cavanna, Elementi per una 
Bibliografia Italiana (Firenze : 1880), pp. 86-90. 
The titles of three Polish papers on Vermes are given in Zool. Anz. iii. 
p. 362. 
PLATYHELMINTHES. 
1. Beneden, E. van. Relation d’un cas de Tuberculose cestodique 
suivie de quelques observations sur les oeufs du Taenia medio-canellata. 
Bull. Ac. Belg. (2) xlix. pp. 659-669. 
2. CoBBOLD, T. S. On the Rot in Sheep. Zool. Anz. iii. pp. 257 & 258. 
1880. [voL. XVII.] j) 1 
