222 APPENDIX. 



Nyctotherus ovalis, Leidy. INFUSORIA. 



Small and large intestines. 



Ref. Leidy, TVans. Amer. Phil. Soc., Vol. X., p. 244, pi. xi. 

 (1352). 



Playiotoma (Bursaria) blatta/rum, Stein-. INFUSORIA. 



Rectum. 

 Ref. Stein, Sitzb. d. -kdnigl. Bohm. Ges., 1860, pp. 49, 50. 



Lophomonas JBlattarum, Stein. INFUSORIA. 



Rectum. 



Ref. Stein (loc. cit.} ; Biitschli, Zeits. f. wiss. Zool., Bd. XXX., 

 p. 258, plates xiii., xv. (1878). 



L. striata, Biitschli. INFUSORIA. 



Rectum. 



.Be/ 1 . Biitschli, Zeits. f. wiss. Zool., Bd. XXX., p. 261, plates 



/I D T O\ 



xm., xv. (187o). 



Gordius, sp. NEMATELMINTHA. 



Specimens in the Museum at Hamburg, from Venezuela. 

 Obtained from some species of Cockroach. 



Oxyuris Diesingi, Ham. NEMATELMINTHA. 



Rectum, frequent. 



Ref. Hammerschmidt, Isis, 1838] Biitschli, Zeits. f. wiss. Zool., 

 Bd. XXI., p. 252, pi. xxi. (1871). 



0. Blattce orientalis, Ham. NEMATELMINTHA. 



Rectum (much rarer than 0. Diesingi). 



Ref. Hammerschmidt (loc. cit.} ; Biitschli, Zeits. f. wiss. Zool., 

 Bd. XXL, p. 252, pi. xxiL (1871). 



Other species of Oxyuris are said to occur in the same situation, 

 e.g., 0. gracilis and 0. appendiculata (Leidy, Proc. Acad. N. S. 

 Phil., Oct. 7th, 1879), and O.macroura (Radkewisch, quoted by 

 Van Beiieden in Animal Parasites, Engl. trans., p. 248). 



Filaria rhytiplewrites, NEMATELMINTHA. 



Encysted in the fat-body of the Cockroach ; sexual state in the 

 alimentary canal of the Rat. Spiroptera, obtusa is similarly 

 shared by the Meal-worm (larva of Tenebrio molitor) and the 

 Mouse. 



J?e/;_Galeb, Compt. Rend., July 8th, 1878. 



