PLATYHELMINTHES. 
Venn. 3 
Ulicny (20) describes Bucephalus intermedins, sp. n., from Anodonta 
cellensis. 
Bipalium hewense, sp. n., H. N. Moseley, Ann. N. H. (5) pp. 237-239. 
Grobben records (Arb. z. Inst. Wien, i. p. 145) the presence of Distomum 
megasiomum in the testicular tubes and vas deferens of Portunus depurator, 
Jensen (10) describes the following new genera: Byrsophlehs (p. 33), 
“ apertura oris ventralis in medio fere corpore. Pharynx ut in Meso- 
stomo. Vesica seminalis unica lateralis, in ductum singularem longura 
per corpus transversum euntem continuata, cujus medio penis affixus est. 
GlandulsB accessoriae granulosae in organa mascula et in feminea quoque 
exeunt. Ovarium impar, cum receptaculo seminis in organum unum 
conjunctum. Receptaculum seminis cum bursa copulatrice baud dubie per 
ductum proprium communicat. Aperturae genitales duae (mascula ante 
femiueam sita).” B. graffi, p. 34, pi. ii. figs. 8-12. 
Proxenetes, g. n., p. 36, “ apertura oris ventralis hand procul post 
medium corporis sita. Pharynx ut in Mesostomo. Organa vitelUgena 
in ipsa ovaria simplicia sunt tota amplitudine continuata. Ovaria paria 
simplicia, sacciformia ut in Vortice. Bursa copulatrix receptaculumque 
seminis in saccum communem conjuncta. Glandulaa accessorias et in 
masculum apparatum genitalem et in femineum exeunt. Apertura geni- 
talis ventralis communis,” &c. P.Jlahellifer, sp. n., p. 36, pis. ii. 13-18. 
Kylosphcera [Cy-]’ S- “•> P* “Apertura proboscidis in extremitate 
antica. Proboscis globosa, papillis nullis, ciliis brevibus, omnino in saccum 
proboscidis retractilis. Apertura oris ventralis, antica, transversa, rimaa- 
formis. Apparatus adhaesionis e corpusculis duris bacilliformibus, ut 
assolet, compositi, in regione oris siti. Truncus aquiferus semeter, in 
aperturam oris patens. Penis durus, spiralis apiculo recto. Bursa copu- 
latrix receptaculumque seminis in organum unum conjuncta. Apertura 
genitalis unica. K. [C.] armata, sp. n., p. 45, pi. iii. figs. 14-22. 
And the following new species : Aphanostomum elegans (p. 25, pi. i. 
figs. 9-11), Convoluta flavihacillum (p. 28, pi. ii. figs. 2-5), Mecynostomum 
agile (p. 31, pi. i. figs. 22-24), Vortex angulatus (p. 39, pi. iii. figs. 1-5), V. 
ajffinis (p. 43, pi. iii. figs. 11-13), Gyrator danielsseni (p. 48, pi. iv. figs. 1-9), 
Plagiostomum horeni (p. 56, pi. v. figs. 1-8), Acmostomum sarsi (p. 59, 
pi. V. figs. 9-13), Enterostomum flavihacillum (p. 64, pi. v. figs. 23-26), 
Monocelis hamata (p. 71, pi. viii. figs. 1-9) ; as also from ‘ manuscriptis 
Dr. M. Sarsi relictis,’ Stylochus roseus (p. 75, pi. viii. figs. 1-3), Thysano- 
zoon papillosum (p. 79, pi. viii. figs. 4-6), Cosmocepliala (?) cordiceps 
(p. 82, pi. viii. figs. 13-16). 
Giard, 0. R. l.xxxvii. p. 72, Ann. N. H. (5) ii. p. 197, describes Aven- 
ardia priei, g. & sp. nn., a large Nemertine from the west coast of France : 
it is one of the Anopla, and has its enteric coeca arranged alternately on 
either side, and forming secondary diverticula at their extremities. Very 
much as in Pelagonemertes rollestonif Moseley. 
Duplessis’s paper ” On the Origin and Distribution of the Turbellaria of 
the deep Fauna of the Lake of Geneva ” (Bibl. tJniv., Oct. 15, 1877, 
Arch. sci. nat. p. 326), is translated in Ann. N. H. (5) p. 490. 
Forel gives a list of the freshwater Vermes of Switzerland. Z. wiss. 
Zool. xxx. (suppl.), p. 386. 
