The senior author, in the course of his investigations on the Trematode and Cestode parasites on Indian food fishes cam eacross some thin, cylindraical , elongated Acathocephala in the pyloric caeca and small intestine af a species of Ophiocephalus at Mainpuri, U. P., in the summer of 1926; more specimens were subsequently collected at Allahabad also. The worm is a new species of the genus Quardrigyous Van Cleeve, 1923, and is described in this paper.
Numerous specimens of another species were obtained by the same author in June, 1927, and later by the second author from a species o f Macrones at Calcutta. This species belongs to the genus Neoechinorhynchus and has got no hoos on the anterior part of the body. There are three rows of six hooks each on the proboscis. Description of the cement gland, testes, pobosceis sheath, and body wall are given.
This text was originally published in: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Indian Science Congress . Calcutta 1928 (Third circuit); p. 194.
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