298 T. B. ROSSETER OX HYMENOLEPIS FARCIMINALIS. 



last segments contained embryonic eggs ; but so far as Krabbe is 

 concerned no mention is made as to the formation of these 

 uterine segments. 



Kuchenmeister also found it parasitic in the starling, and, like 

 Friis, in the jackdaw ; and von Siebold took it from the jay. 

 According to Krabbe, the hooks on the rostellum in each case 

 correspond with Creplin's specimen (Plate 24, Fig. 7). Kuchen- 

 meister and von Siebold both saw the six-hooked brood. The 

 latter states that his specimen was but 30 mm. long ; but in 

 neither instance are we enlightened as to the sausage formation 

 of the terminative segments. 



Krabbe, in his monograph, does not state that he had 

 personally found this tape-worm, nor had had it submitted to him 

 for examination. He evidently takes his basis of description from 

 Creplin's specimen. 



Thus I deduce from the above that none of the investigators 

 sinca Goeze have possessed a worm of sufficient length for them 

 to record, and thus corroborate Goeze in the " farcimen " 

 formation of the terminative segments. Creplin's is the nearest 

 approach to it in length, and I feel sure that had Creplin's 

 specimen possessed the peculiar terminative segments indicative 

 of Goeze's worm, Krabbe would have noted it in his Bid/rag. 

 Again, Krabbe thinks it possible that Batsch's specimen was 

 the same as Dujardin's T. undulata. I have already shown in 

 a previous paper on Drepanidotaenia undulata (see Journal 

 Quekett Micr. Club, Ser. 2, Vol. ix., No. 58, p. 270, 1906) 

 that Dujardin's T. undulata is in reality T. angulata. Thus if 

 Dujardin's description of T. undulata (?) is, as Krabbe hints, 

 quite in line with Batsch's T. farciminalis, it follows that the 

 segments in either case must be, according to Dujardin, unlike 

 those figured by Goeze for T. farciminalis, for Dujardin says 

 of his T. undulata, that the terminative segments are swollen 

 out " en forme de grain d'orge monde deux fois aussi larges que 

 longs" (loc. cit. No. 2G, p. 569). Now although Dujardin's 

 nomenclature of T. undulata and T. angulata is wrong, he 

 knew, nevertheless, that his T. undulata (?) in no way corre- 

 sponded with the description he gives of Goeze's T. farciminalis : 



