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arrangement. The genital pore opened immediately behind the

joint which separated the anterior from the nosterior sement

and close beside it was the open Ing of a long sae,cirrus

pouch, situated in the middle line, The deep nosterior sucker o a

fasci010psis huski into which the cirrus nouch of that worm

opens was absent. I could no describe the intestine with

certainity for it was indistinct,hut

the oneca were un-

-branched, and had two sharp curves one in front of and the

other behind the anterior testicle. The casca I thin' either

opened separately at the anterior corners of the posterior

segment or they turned directly inward at those moints. The

anterior segment showed a finely striated hoarder surgest ing

that it was an organ of attachment, The worm had animes,

Fasciclopsis huski is varios y described as being with and

without spines. find that it has spines but that they are not

easily seen in some mourted specimens,

Vigorous search has been made at the Public Mortuary

for more specimens of the worm but they have not so far heen

found,However I have found a single case of infection with

fasciclopsis buski. Three of the

the

Parasites heine present in

jejunum of a child ared ten. I was at once struck with

their naked eye resemblance to a very common fluke wier

is found in the stomach and in the small and large intest-

-ines of South China pizs. In cleared specimens the very

slight differences were, I considered, accounted for by dif-

-ferences in development of the individual anccimens and chi-

-efly concerned the amount of

curvature of the caeca, Som •

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