NEMATOH ELM1NTHES ROTATORIA. 
Verm. 7 
Chilospirura posthelica, erecta, uncinipennis, hamulosa , long e- striata, 
cephaloptera , capillaris. 
Physocephalus sexalatus. 
He describes as new : — Spiroptera quadrilabiata. 
Cobbold (27) describes as new : — 
Strongylus foliata,falcifer. 
Dochmius sanzeri. 
Filaria smithi. 
And has notes on — 
Ascaris lonchoptera. 
Sclerostoma sipunculiforme. 
Strongylus clathratus. 
Ascaris clavata in Cod ; adults and larvae both found: Meguin, Bull. 
Soc. Z. Fr. viii. p. 154. 
Ascaris injlexa in Hen’s egg ; Ernst, Zool. Anz. vi. p. 291. 
Ascaris incurva in Sword-Fish ; True, Rep. Coram. U. S. F. C. 1880 
(1883), p. 343. 
Chcetonotus larus ; Fernald, Am. Nat. xvii. pp. 1217-1220. 
ACANTHOCEPHALI. 
Echinorrhynchus porrigens in “la Baleine franche,” E. brevicollis in 
Balcenoptera sibbaldi, E. acus and E. globulosus in the Cod; M6gnin, 
Bull. Soc. £. Fr. viii. pp. 153 & 154. 
Echinorrhynchus plicatus, E. acanthotrias , spp. nn., Linstow (11). . 
ROTATORIA. 
38. Billet, A. Sur les moeurs et les premiers phenomenes du d6ve- 
loppement de la Philodina roseola. Bull. Sci. Nord. vi. pp. 1-10 
& 69-84, pis. i. & ii. 
39. Crisp, F. New Swiss Rotatoria. Zool. Anz. vi. pp. 564. 
40. Eckstein, — . Die Rotatorien der Umgegend der Giessen. Z. wiss. 
Zool. xxxix. pp. 343-443, pis. 
41. Hudson, C. T. Five New Floscules ; with a Note on Prof. Leidy’s 
Genera of Acyclus and Dictyophora. J. R. Micr. Soc. (2) iii. 
pp. 161-171, pis. iii. & iv. 
42. . On Asplanchna ebbesborni , sp. n. L. c. pp. 621-628, pis. ix. & x. 
43. Joliet, L. Monographie des M61icertes. Arch. Zool. Par. (2) i. 
pp. 131-224, pis. xi.-xiii. 
Eckstein (40) gives a most elaborate account of the organization and 
development of the Rotatoria. Among other points of interest, he 
describes the excretory organs as not having a funnel-shaped opening 
into the coelom, but rather a small orifice beneath the club-shaped free 
end, into which the waste products are driven by a long cilium. He 
denies to the “winter ova” the limitation as to season, and proposes 
