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ZOOLOGY. 



female is white and from eight to ten millimetres in length; 

 the male is only two or three millimetres long. 



The largest known round worm is the palisade worm, or 

 Eustrongylus giyas Rudolphi, the female of which is a 



Fig. 84. Ox- 

 yvris vermlcitla- 

 ris. a, male, nat- 

 ural size ; b. the 

 same enlarged. 

 After Benedeu. 



Fig;. 85. 

 wfrrmcHlari* . a, fe- 

 male, natural size ; b, 

 the same enlarged. 

 After Beneden. 



Fig. 86. - Trichocephalnit din- 

 par, a, malt-, natural sixe , /;, 

 enlarged ; c, female, natural 

 size. After Beneden. 



metre (about 39 inches) in length, and the size of a quill ; 

 the male is one third as long. It is rare in man, and occurs 

 especially in the intestines, and sometimes the kidneys cf 

 such mammals as live on fish. The mouth is surrounded 



