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VERMES. 
toneal cavity, from which it has to escape, and enter the intestine of 
aquatic birds to develop proglottids. 
Villot (25) finds that Glomeris is the nurse for the tasniuQ of the shrews, 
and that they are in that host in the “staphylocystic” stage ; T. scutigera 
was found in Sorex tetragonurus ; T. scalaris, T. tiara, and T. jgistillum 
in S. araneus. 
T. S. Cobbold describes and figures the large equine fluke which he 
now calls Gastrodiscus sansinoi (= Diplostomum cegyptiacum, T. S. 0.), 
in Veter. 1877, pp. 234-239 ; this species has an enormous sucker on its 
ventral surface, within which are 200 smaller suckers. 
The following papers also deal with this group : — Duchamp, Sur les 
conditions de developpement des Ligules ; 0. R. Ixxxv. pp. 1239 & 1240. 
Moniez, Sur I’embryog^nie des Oestoides ; tom. cit. pp. 974-97G. 
Macleay, Notes on the Entozoa of a Sun-Fish ; P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 
1877, pp. 12 & 13. Sansino, On the Entozoa of the Horse ; Veter. 1877, pp. 
49-54, 121-128. De Saint Joseph, Note sur I’armature de \ 2 iPtych 0 des splen- 
dida, Dies {Cerdbratulus spectahilis, Quat.) ; Bull. Soc, Philom. 1876-77, 
pp. 148-151. Vaillant, Remarques sur une figure de I’appareil stylifere 
des Ndmertiens donnde dans les planches du “ Voyages en Scandinavie, &c.” 
(Oaimard), tom. cit. pp. 132 & 133. Porroncito, Tenacity of Life in Hel- 
minthcs; Veter. 1877, pp. 457-461. H. Saake, Dio Wurmtuborkeln im 
submucosen Bindegowobo des Dunndarmos dor Rindor ; Arch. f. Tliiorh. 
1877, pp. 195-200, 467 & 468, pi. iii. 3 & 4. 
Balert, Die Bandwiirmer und die iibrigen Eingeweidewiirmer des 
Menschen, &c. (Leipzig : R. Holm), and Vogt, Die Herkunft der Eiuge- 
weidewiirmer (Basel: Georg), have not been seen by the Recorder. 
NEMATOHELMINTHES. 
26. Brandt, A. Ueber die Eifurchung der Ascaris nigro-venosa. Z. 
wiss. Zool. xxviii. pp. 365-384, pis. xx. & xxi. 
27. Claus, 0. Ueber die Trichine. Wien ; 1877. 
28. Ghaleb, O. Sur I’anatomie et les migrations des Oxyurid^s, para- 
sites des Insectes du genre Blatta. C. R. Ixxxv. pp. 236-239. 
29. Hallez, — . Sur le developpement de VAnguillula aceti, Erh. Rev. 
Sci. Nat. V. pp. 454-466. 
30. SoLGER, B. Ueber eine neue Species von Trichosoma, R. Arch, 
f. Nat. xliii. pp. 19-24, pi. ii. 
31. Stirling, W. On the changes produced in the lungs by the 
embryos of Ollulanus tricuspis. Q. J. Micr. Sci. xvii. pp. 145-152, 
pi. xi. 
New GiiiNERA and Species, &c. 
Linatow (11) describes the following new forms : — Ilitrephoros hemi- 
sphccricus, g. & sp. nn., p. 2, pi. i. fig. 2, Acrobeles ciliatus, g. & sp. nn.. Hid., 
pi. i. fig. 3, both from Lake Ratzeburg ; only forms which were sexually 
immature were observed, but in both cases the characters of the head 
