Verm. 1 
VERMES. 
BY 
F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., F.R.M.S., F.Z.S. 
Claus has commenced to issue a fourth edition of his “ Zoologie,” in 
which pp. 375-509 are devoted to the Vermes. 
Leuckart has commenced a second edition of his “ Die Parasiten des 
Menschen,” and has also published a more popular “ AUgenieine Natur- 
gcschichte der Parasiten,” with 91 woodcuts (Loip/ag). 
CoDBOLD has issued a volume under the title of “ Parasites, &c.” 
(London : 1879). 
F. W. Hutton has published a “ Catalogue of the hitherto described 
Worms of New Zealand.” Trans, N. Z. Inst. xi. pp. 314-327. 
Eulers has published a “Preliminary Report on the Worms” 
(Reports on the Results of Dredging, &c. iv.) (Bull. Mus. C. Z. v. No. 12) ; 
from which we learn that the greater part of the collection is Annelidan, 
the Nemertines are represented by fragments, there is only one Sagitta ; 
of four Gephyrean genera, a species of one (Phascolosoma) was brought 
up from depth of 1568 fathoms. Below the 600-fathom line were found 
examples of Aphroditidce^ Polynoidce^ Eunicida', Opheliulm.^ Amphoretidm., 
and Seipnlidce. The Ennicidce play an important part, just as they are 
the Annelids best represented in the lithographic shales of Bavaria. 
Verrill (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 15) gives a list of the Annelids 
collected during the Howgate Polar Expedition (Cumberland Gulf and 
Penny Harbour) : Harmothne imbricata, Nereis pelagica^ Phyllodhce 
grcenlandica, Syllis sp., Cistenides granulata, Thelepus cincinnatus (not 
circinnatus, as Malmgren and others write), Spirorhis lucidiis, S. quadri- 
angiilaris (pp. 141 & 142). 
Fhascolosoma margaritaceum collected in Cumberland Sound ; id. 1. c. 
p. 142. 
Studer (Arch. f. Nat. xlv. pp. 114, 123-125, 136) gives a list of the 49 
Vermes (including 10 Bryozoa) found at Kerguelen’s Land ; he describes 
as new Thalassema verrucosa (Betsy Cove). 
Lunel gives (Bull. Soc. Vaud. xvi. pp. 168 & 169) a list of the para- 
sites and intestinal worms found in the fishes of the Lake of G eneva. 
1879. [vOL. XVI.] D 1 
