8 Verm. 
VEEMES. 
Chigi, L. Organi escretori e Glandole tubipare delle Serpulacee. Tesi 
di Laurea. Foligno (F. Salvati) : 1890, 108 pp., 15 pis. 
Comes to similar conclusions as Soulier (see below) as to the part played 
by the ventral shields in forming the tube. 
Cobb, N. A. (1) Anticoma : A genus of free-living marine Nematodes. 
P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. v, pp. 765-774, 2 woodcuts. 
1 new species. 
. (2) Onyx and Dipeltis : new Nematode genera, with a note on 
Dorylaimus. Op. cit. vi, pp. 143-158, 9 figs. 
Cobelli, R. Contribuzione alio studio dei Rotiferi. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 
1891, Bd. 41, pp. 585 & 586. 
Oh the desiccation of Rotifers. Rotifers kept in dried earth for over 
five years were dead, but on immersion in water distended themselves, 
and showed distinctly the internal organs well preserved. Disaggregation 
ensued after the distension, the latter being due to the imbibition of 
water. 
Collin, A. (1) Parasiten aus dem Darm des Zebra. SB. nat. Fr. 1891, 
pp. 85-88. 
* . (2) Ueber Planaria alpina , Dana. T. c. pp. 177-180. 
Records a new habitat, viz., the Harz. Planaria abscissa , Ijiraa, is 
identical with P. alpina. Doubtful whether P. alpina is viviparous. 
. (3) Ein seltener Fall von Doppel-bildung beim Regenwurm 
( Lumbricus sp.). Naturw. Wochenschr. vi, No. 12, pp. 113-115, 3 figs. 
. (4) Ueber Echiurus chilensis f Max Muller. Zool. Anz. xiv, pp. 
463 & 464. 
This form is allied to E. unicinctus , Drasche, as it has only one circle of 
bristles at hinder end. It has three pairs of segmental organs, this boing 
the only species of Echiurus yet described with more than four nephridia. 
Cori, C. J. Untersuchungen fiber die Anatomie und Histologie der 
Gattung Phoronis. Z. wiss. Zool. li, 1890, pp. 480-568, Taf. xxii- 
xxviii 
For the purposes of the Zoological Record, Phoronis is regarded 
provisionally as a Gephyrean. « 
Cosmovici, L. C. Un enkystement inconnu du Distomum lanceolatum , 
Mehl. Le Nat. xiii, 1891, p. 247. 
See however Moniez, Notes, &c., No. ix. 
Crety, C. Cestodi della Coturnix communis , Bonn. Boll. Mus. Zool. 
Anat. Comp. Torino, v, 1890, No. 88, 16 pp., 1 pi. 
2 new species. 
. [See also Monticelli & Crety, infra.] 
GuiSnot, L. Etudes sur le sang et les glandes lymphatiques dans la s6rie 
animale. Arch. Z. exp6r. ix. 
