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Family CERCOPITHECIDAE 



Cercopithecus sp. 



Experimental prey. — Cockroaches, East Africa (Carpenter, 1921, 

 1925) : The monkey rarely tasted and usually ignored cockroaches 

 ofifered to it. In one experiment the monkey had to be deprived of 

 food before it would eat the cockroach. 



Macaca mulatta (Zimmermann) 



Synonymy. — Macaca rhesus [Johnson, personal communication, 



1957]- 

 Experimental prey. — Blattella germanica, France (Brumpt and Ur- 



bain, 1938, 1938a) : The macaque was fed cockroaches infested with 



Prosthenorchis elcgans and P. spirula. 



Macaca sylvanus (Linnaeus) 



Synonymy. — Inuus sylvanus [Simpson, 1945]. 

 Common name. — Macaque. 



Natural prey. — Blattella germanica, France (Brumpt and Urbain, 

 1938) : See comment under Lemur coronatus. 



Papio papio (Desmarest) 



Experimental prey. — Blattella germanica, France (Brumpt and 

 Urbain, 1938, 1938a) : This baboon was fed cockroaches infested 

 with Prosthenorchis elegans and P. spirula. 



Family PONGIDAE 

 Pan sp. 



Common name. — Chimpanzee. 



Natural prey. — Blattella germanica, Netherlands (Thiel and Wie- 

 gand Bruss, 1946) : Indirect evidence for this relationship was shown 

 by these workers who found two animals heavily infected with Pros- 

 thenorchis spirula in a zoo in Rotterdam ; the intermediate host of the 

 worm was shown to be B. germanica. 



Family HOMINIDAE 



Homo sapiens Linnaeus 



Natural prey. — Oothecae of Blatta orient alis and Neostylopyga 

 rhomhifolia, Thailand (Bristowe, 1932). 



Periplaneta americana, Formosa (Takahashi, 1924). 



