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Show 1903.] ENTO-PARASITES OF THE " SKEAT EXPEDITION.' 155 SPOROZOA. Order SARCOSPORIDIA Balbiani. Several specimens of this order were found amongst the and the tissues at the base of the tongue of a Bos bubalis killed at Kwala Aring. Dr. von Linstow has described these specimens as a new species-Balbiana (Sarcocystis) siamensis-in the article mentioned under the Nematoda. I have figured these life-size, on PI. XVI. fig. 12. LISTS OF HOSTS CONTAINING THE PARASITES COLLECTED ON THE SKEAT EXPEDITION. ECHINODERMA. A Holothurian, probably a Molpadia, infested by Tetrarhynchus holothurice, n. sp. INSECTA. A Mantis was infested by the Gordian Worm, Chordodes mon-toni Camer. AMPHIBIA. Bufo melanostictios Schneider and ? Bufo penangensis Wilson & Gray had Echinorhynchxts bufonis, n. sp., in their intestines, and Angiostomum brachylaimus v. Lins. probably in its lungs. Callula pulchra Gray, infested by indeterminable species of Echinorhynchihs. Megalophrys montana Wagl. had in its stomach examples of Oxysoma tuberculatum v. Lins. Rana tigrina Daud., infested by Echinorhynchus tigrince, n. sp. OPHIDIA. Dipsadomorphus dendrophilus Boie, infested by Ascaris soli-tar ia v. Lins. in the stomach, a single specimen, and by Ascaris dipsadomorphi v. Lins. in numerous cysts on the mesentery; and almost certainly by certain Bothriocephalid larva? and by Echinorhynchus patani, n. sp. Enhydrina valakadien Boie, infested by a cystic form of Tetrarhynchus whose species is not determinable. Python reticulatus Schneid. had its lungs infested by Poro-cephalus moniliformis, and another specimen contained many examples of Ascaris infundibulicola in its alimentary canal. Nenopeltis unicolor Reinw., infested by Echinorhynchus xenopeltidis, n. sp. |