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Show 1 9 0 5 . ] MR. A. E. SHIPLEY ON ENTO-PARASITES. 2 4 9 Three specimens from the lungs of a Tiger in the Zoological Gardens. This species was first described by Kerbert from a Royal Tiger in the Gardens at Amsterdam. He states they were found, two at a time, in pockets in the lungs, which wTere mostly situated near the surface. It is a not uncommon human parasite in the East, and was first found by Ringer in the bronchi of a man who came from Formosa. It is met with in China and Korea, and is especially common in Japan, where it gives rise to much pulmonary mischief. It is also recorded from North America, probably imported. Besides the tiger and man, it has been recorded from the pig, the dog, and the cat. ACANTHOCEPHALA. E c h in o iu iv n c i iu s s p ir u l a Olfers. Diesing, Syst. Helm. ii. p. 21. A considerable collection of specimens of this species of Echino-rhynchus was sent me from the following animals :- (i.) Pero-dicticus potto Bosnian, or Bosnian's Potto, found in the West Coast of Africa, the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Gaboon ; (ii.) Lemur coronatus Gray, the Crowned Lemur, from Madagascar ; and (iii.) Lemur brunneus v. d. Hoeven, the Black-headed Lemur. The latter is the name given in the ‘ Catalogue of the Animals in the Zoological Gardens,' but I have been unable to find it or any synonym for it in Trouessart's great catalogue *. This species of parasite is recorded in von Linstow's ‘ Compendium der Helminthologie ' as occurring in Lnuus ecaudatus Geofir. ( = Pithecus innuus L., vide Trouessart's ‘ Catalogus Mammalium,' Berlin, 1898-1899, p. 26), from Gibraltar and Northern Africa, and from Cebus fatuellus Erxleben, from S. America. Railletf points out that Leuckart considered this species may be the same as the E. hominis Lambl., which was found, in one instance only, in the small intestine of a child of nine years of age who died at Prague in 1857. PENTASTOMTDA. POIIOCEPHALUS CllOTALI (Huillboldt). Eckinorhynchus crotcdi Humboldt. Distoma crotali Humboldt. Polystoma proboscideum Rudolphi. Linguatula proboscidea van Beneden. Pentastomum moniliforme Diesing, Megnin (in parte). Linguatula quadriuncinata Meyer. Pentastomum imperatoris Macalister. Pentastomum proboscideum Rudolphi. # [The Lemurs which have been almost continuously exhibited at the Gardens for many years under the name of Lemur brunneus v. d. Hoeven are almost certainly identical with L. mongoz var. nigrifrons M.-Edw. et Grandidier. See Sclater, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 2 3 1- P. C. M.] f ‘ Zoologie Modicale et Agricole.' Paris, 1895. |