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Show 1903.] ENT0-PARA8ITES OF THE " SKEAT EXPEDITION." 153 2. CHORDODES PUNCTICUTATUS Camer. 1895. L. Camerano, Notes Leyden Mus. xvii. 1897. L. Camerano, Mem. Ace. Torino, ser. 2, xlvii. p. 384. 1899. L. Camerano, Atti Ace. Torino, xxxiv. 1901. L. Camerano, Boll. Mus. Torino, xvi. no. 408. A single male specimen taken on an island off Kedah measured 23-2 m m . Its colour was a darkish brown lightening towards each tip. The cuticle resembled other examples described from Deli in Eastern Sumatra and from Perak. 3. CHORDODES SIAMENSIS Camer. 1903. L. Camerano, Boll. Mus. Torino, xviii. no. 437. A single female specimen, brownish-black in colour, but lighter towards the ends, 20 cm. long. This specimen was taken at Biserat. 4. GORDIUS PARONJE Camer. 1903. L. Camerano, Boll. Mus. Torino xviii. no. 437. Three male specimens taken at Kota Bharu, varying in length from 17*5 cm. to 22-5 cm. NEMATODA. The Nematoda have been described by Dr. von Linstow in ' Archiv fiir mikroskopische Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte,' Band lxii. 1903, p. 108. I here give only a list of the species and of their respective hosts, and must refer the reader to the memoir mentioned for further details. 1. ASCARIS INFUNDIBULICOLA V. LinS. From the alimentary canal of Python reticulatus Gray, killed in Tremangan. 2. ASCARIS SOLITARIA v. Lins. A single undeveloped female was found in the stomach of Dipsadomorphus dendrophilus Boie, taken at Kwala Aring. 3. ASCARIS DIPSADOMORPHI V. Lins. A number of larva? found in the cysts scattered through the mesentery of D. dendrophilus Boie, Kwala Aring. 4. HETERAKIS RIMULA V. Lins. Out of Centropits sinensis Steph. 5. HETERAKIS CIRCULARIS V. Lins. Prom the same host as No. 4. |