GO Venn. 
XV. VERMES. 
B. — A CANTHOCEPHALA. 
Echinorkynchus : 18 species in different fish of Scandinavia, with E. 
gibber (from Murcena anguilla ) and E. obovatus (from Mergns ser- 
rator ), n. spp., Olsson, Sv. Ak. Handl. xxv. On 3 species in birds, 
Condorelli-Francaviglia, (71) pp. 79-82. E. capitatus , v. Linst., 
as an instance of omopolielminthesis in Globicephalus svineval, 
Flow., Gulf of Genoa ; Parona (189). E. magretti , Par., cysts 
occurring outside the trachea of Lamprotornis chalybea , from Red 
Sea; Setti (220). E. tuberosus , Yellowstone Park, notes on, 
Linton, (150) p. 554. E. claviceps , as an instance of true pedo- 
genesis ; Monticelli (172). 
0 .—CHAETOGNA TEA. 
[Nothing.] 
5.-ROTIFERA, including GASTROTRICHID^. 
Daday, Terraes. Fuzetek. xvi, pp. 72-80, deals with the systematic of 
Rotifers iu general, and introduces a new family belonging to the 
order Monogonota for his Gypridicola parasitica , a peculiar form 
with single ovary, but paired genital apertures, and a foot gland 
which becomes the stalk gland, ectoparasitic on a Cypris. 
Adinetidce ; Bryce, J. Quekett Club, v, pp. 146-151. 
Adineta clauda , n. sp., Gareloch Head, N.B., possibly the type of a new 
genus ; Bryce, J. Quekett Club, v, p. 150. A. tuberculosa , barbata , 
and gracilis , n. spp., N. Germany, Janson, Abh. Yer. Bremen, xii, 
Suppl. pp. 09-73. A. vaga, 2 varr , major and minor , distinguished ; 
Bryce, t. c. 
Anapas : remarks on the genus an 3 on the spepies, A. ovalis, to which 
he would refer Lauterborn’s (Chromogaster testudo) ; Bergendal, 
Ofv. Ak. Forh. 1, pp. 589-598. 
Ascomorpha agilis and amygdulum, n. spp., Holstein (Greater Lake of 
Plon), Zaciiarias, Biol. Centralbl. xiii, pp. 377-382. 
A&planchna priodonta, Gosse, from Plon, anatomy ; Rousselet (211). 
Bipalpus vesicidosus, in the Greater Lake of Plon ; Zacitarias, t. c. 
Anatomy of female, with only a brief mention of the male ; Wier- 
zejski & Zacharias, Zeitschr. wiss. Zool. p. 236. Lauterborn’s 
JDictyoderma hypopus referred to it ; Wierzejski & Zacharias, 
Zool. Anz. xvi, p. 430. B. lynceus , Ehrb., defence of the name ; 
Wierzejski & Zacharias, t. c. Jagerskiold, Zool. Anz. xvi, 
p. 357, gives these 2 species as synonyms of his 2 species of Gastero- 
chiza, q.v. 
Brachionus Widens , n. sp., salt and brackish water, Scotland ; Hood, 
J. Quekett Club, v, p.283. B. rhenanus , n. sp., Rhine, Lauteiiboun, 
Zool. Jahrb. Syst. vii, p. 269. 
