FILARIINAE 199 



striations. Mouth without lip-like structures. Tail of male 

 strongly curved, flattened ventrally and with narrow alae. 

 Caudal papillae variable in number and often asymmetrical, 

 but always including a group of four pairs of nipple-like 

 adanal papillae. Spicules unequal ; the longer spicule tubular 

 in its proximal portion, alate distally, the alae rolled to form 

 a tube; the shorter spicule barbed distally. Tail of female 

 bluntly conical. Vulva postoesophageal. Viviparous. 



Hab. Connective tissue of mammals. 



Genotype : O. reticulata Diesing, 1841. 



Diesing, in Hermann, 1841, Repert. Thierh., Stuttgart, 

 ii, 199; Railliet & Henry, 1910, Compt. rend. Soc. Biol., 

 Paris, i, 249 ; Leiper, 1911, [Rep. to Local Govt. Board, London, 

 No. 45, Food Report II.] Journ. Trop. Med. Hyg., xiv, 87. 



10. Elaeophora Railliet & Henry, 1912. 

 Mouth without lip-like structures. Oesophagus very long. 

 Tail of male curved or spirally twisted, without alae. Five 

 pairs of small, sessile caudal papillae present, of which two 

 pairs are preanal. Spicules unequal ; the longer with blunt 

 tip, the shorter with a knob-like swelling at the tip. Posterior 

 portion of body of female much thicker than anterior portion. 

 Uterus divides dichotomously into four branches. 



Hab. Nodules in the wall of the aorta of cattle (one species 

 known). 



Genotype : E. [Filaria] poeli (Vrijburg, 1897). 



Vrijburg, 1897, xi, 43 {fide Stiles & Hassall, not verified) ; 

 RaiUiet & Henry, 1912, Bull. Soc. Path, exot., Paris, v, 115. 



11. Katanga Yorke & Maplestone, 1926. 

 Syn. Grammophora Gedoelst, 1916, nee Guenee, 1852. 



Body attenuated at each end, especially posteriorly. Head 

 rounded, followed by a slight constriction. Mouth without 

 lip-like structures. Caudal end conical in both sexes, with 

 three appeiidages, two of which are lateral and button-like, 

 the third terminal and cylindrical. In the male an adanal 

 group of six pairs of caudal papillae, and a subterminal pair, 

 present. Spicules unequal, both' short and broad. Vulva 

 near anterior end. Common trunk of uterus long. 



Hab. Connective tissue of a Jumping-shrew {Petrodromus) . 

 (One species known). 



Genotj^e : K. [Grammopliora] katangensis (Gedoelst, 1916). 



Gedoelst, 1916, Rev. Zool. Afric, Brussels, v, 49. 



12. Lemdana Seurat, 1917. 

 Cuticle thick, smooth. Lateral fields narrow. Mouth 

 without lip-like structures. Tail of male short, without alae. 



