1. Examinations for helminths have been made on 380 English partridges (Perdix perdix), 6 Red Leg partridges (Alectoris rufa), 12 pheasants (Phasianus colchicus), 3 quails (Coturnix coturnix) and 7 grouse (Lagopus scoticus).

2. From Perdix perdix 6 species of nematodes and 9 cestodes were recovered. Seven of these, C. retusa, D. proglottina, H. carioca, H. anatina, H. phasianina, R. echinobothrida and R. tetragona are recorded for the first time from this host.

3. From Alectoris rufa were obtained 4 species of helminths, none of which had been recorded from it before. They are T. tenuis, S. trachea, H. gallinae and H. phasianina.

4. From Phasianus colchicus 3 species were obtained. They were all nematodes. From Lagopus scoticus, 2 species of cestodes and one nematode, all of which had been found in these hosts before.

5. A new cestode infestation, Metroliasthes lucida, was noted in the quail (Coturnix coturnix).

The history of the beet-strain of Heterodera schachtii in Germany, where it was first recognized in 1859, and its subsequent discovery in other beet-growing European countries and the United States of America, have already been described in some detail in a Memorandum published by the Imperial Bureau of Agricultural Parasitology. This Memorandum was published in 1931 with the object of emphasizing the potential danger of Heterodera schachtii to the sugar-beet industry, then comparatively newly established in Britain. Observations carried out in America are quoted, which strongly indicated that the eelworm was introduced into the United States by the use of seed imported from European countries where the infection was known to be intense and of long standing; this contention, however, does not yet appear to have been decisively proved. The danger of repeated beet cultivation, without regard to rotation of crops, was particularly emphasized with reference to the wide distribution of the potato-strain of H. schachtii in Britain, and such infections as were already known to occur on other host-plants were noted.

Three eelworm-infested samples of a liquor used for tanning hides were recently forwarded to Prof. R. T. Leiper by Dr. D. Jordan Lloyd, Director of Research to the British Leather Manufacturers' Research Association. I am indebted to Prof. Leiper who identified the worm as Turbatrix aceti for the opportunity of examining and reporting upon this material.

During a study of the nematode, Howardula phyllotretae Oldham, 1933, parasitic in Flea Beetles of the genus Phyllotreta, records were kept in order to get data concerning the incidence of infection. The records already published, with a description of the parasite (Oldham, 1933), refer solely to the observations made during 1931. During the two subsequent years large numbers of beetles belonging to the following species: P. atra, P. cruciferae, P. nigripes, P. undulata and P. vittula, were collected and examined for parasites. Collections were made, in each year, from about the beginning of April, when the adults started to emerge from their winter shelters, up to the end of September, when the beetles became scarce and were leaving the plants to hibernate. The observations made, therefore, cover the entire period of the insect's active life.

In April 1934 Mr. W. E. H. Hodson, Advisory Entomologist, Reading University, sent the writer a portion of narcissus bulb exhibiting disease symptoms. The bulb was a trumpet daffodil, of the variety “Sir Watkin,” from a stock which had been growing in the Isles of Scilly for 40 years or more and had probably never been hot-water treated. It contained a number of nematodes belonging to the genus Aphelenchoides which differed in certain anatomical features from other members of this genus. Good specimens of the worm were not very numerous or favourable for detailed investigation but some measurements and drawings were made at the time and it was hoped that at a later date further and better supplies of the organism would become available. In July 1934 the same species of nematode was found in a portion of diseased narcissus bulb sent to the writer by Mr. L. N. Staniland, Advisory Entomologist, Seale-Hayne Agricultural College, Newton Abbot, when the same peculiarities of structure and appearance were again noted and found to be constant.

Steiner (1931) published a brief note on the occurrence of disease in a yam tuber, from Jamaica, with which there were associated large numbers of a species of nematode which he placed in the genus Hoplolaimus. Steiner and LeHew (1933) published a description of the nematode parasite obtained from this yam and gave it the name Hoplolaimus bradys. At a later date Steiner and Buhrer (1934) recorded the same parasite from a yam coming from Porto Rico.