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Hab. Connective tissue of Birds. 

 Genotype : E. obtusus Dujardin, 1845. 



Dujardin, 1845, Hist. nat. des Helminthes, Paris, 106. 



This genus appears to fall into the subfamily Aproctinae. 

 The name Eucamptus, however, is preoccupied, and E. obtusus 

 Dujardin is referred by Yorke & Maplestone (1926) to their 

 new genus Coronofilaria, the type of which is C. pillersi Yorke 

 & Maplestone, 1926. 



Appendix to Family Filariidae. 

 a. Solenonema Diesing, 1861. 



The generic diagnosis given by Diesing is quite inadequate. 

 The genotype, by page precedence, would be S. [Filaria] 

 aequale (Molin, 1858), but neither this nor either of the other 

 two species included in the genus is sufficiently characterized 

 to form the basis of a generic diagnosis. For the present, the 

 genus cannot be distinguished from Filaria, sens. lat. 



Molin, 1858, Sitz. k. Akad. Wiss., Wien, xxviii, 383 ; Diesing, 

 1861, Sitz. k. Akad. Wiss., Wien, xlii, 620, 704. 



b. Tetracheilonema Diesing, 1861. 



Hab. Connective tissue of Birds. 



Genotype : T. {Filaria} quadrilabiatum (Molin, 1858). 



c. Tricheilonema Diesing, 1861. 



Syn. Schizocheilonema Diesing, 1861. 



Hab. Unknown. 



Genotype : T. [Filaria] megalochilum Diesing, 1851. 



d. Monopetalonema Diesing, 1861. 



Hab. Birds (position not stated). 



Genotype : M. [Filaria] physalurum (Bremser, in Diesing, 

 1851). 



These three genera are um-ecognizable, none of the species 

 included being sufficiently well known to enable a diagnosis 

 to be constructed. The species must be regarded as belonging 

 to the genus Filaria, sens. lat. 



e. Tipasella Seurat, 1921 ( ?). 



Lip-like structures not apparent. Oesophagus clearly 

 differentiated into a shorter muscular region and a longer 

 glandular region. Tail of male without alae. Spicules short 

 and equal ( ?). 



Genotype : ( ?). 



Seurat, 1921, Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. AJrique du Nord, Alger, 

 xii, 33. 



