474 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV, 



HELMINTHES CESTODES. 



Bellingham has noticed as Irish Cestoiclea, Scolex poly- 

 morphus, Ligula spursa, Tetrarhynchus grossits, and solidns. 

 (Annals Nat. Hist, xiv, pp. 163, 251, 317.) The last is 

 a new species discovered by Drumrnond in the abdominal 

 cavity of Salmo salar. Bellingham thinks he has observed 

 bodies like ova beneath the integument of this worm, upon 

 each side of the depressions upon the head. The same 

 naturalist enumerates besides, eighteen Bothriocephali, with 

 five as yet undetermined species from the intestinal canal of 

 Podiceps minor and rubricollis, Sterna arctica, Raja batis, 

 Gadus morrhua, and asglefinus. We are also informed 

 that the Bothriocephalus latus, compared with the very 

 abundant Tcenia solium, occurs but extremely rarely in 

 Ireland. Of fifty-one Irish Ttenia, Bellingham has been 

 compelled to leave twenty-three species undetermined. 



The observations by Wawruch on persons affected with 

 Tapeworm, which have been already noticed on a previous 

 occasion, have since appeared as a special Monograph 

 (Wawruch : prakt. Monographic der Bandwurmkrankheit, 

 1844), in which he has given his confession of faith respect- 

 ing the origin, nourishment, growth, motion, propagation, 

 regeneration, duration of life, and habitat of the Tapeworm. 

 In an essay on the reproduction and regeneration of the 

 Tapeworm, the familiar phrases concerning equivocal gene- 

 ration are once more employed by Melion. (Wiirtem. med. 

 Correspondenzblatt, 1844, n. 21.) 



A remarkable case of the discharge of a Teenia solium 

 from the navel of a man has been communicated by Herz 



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(Medizinisch. Zeitung. herausg. v. d. Vereiu. f. Heilkuude 

 in Preussen, 1843, Nr. 17, p. 75 ; or Schmidt's Jahrbiicher. 

 Hd. 41, 1844, p. 287), to which the Reporter has appended 

 some remarks upon the migration of the Entozoa. 



Under the name Proylottis, Dujardin (Annals d. Sci. 

 Nat. t. xx, 1843, p. 342) has instituted a new Cestoid genus, 

 the species of which occur in Shrew-mice, in the common 



