SOME PARASITES PROM CEYLON. 45 



SOME PARASITES FROM CEYLOM. 



By Arthur E. Shipley, M.A., 



Fellow and Tutor of Chrisfs College, Cumiridge, and University Lecturer 

 on the Advanced Morjphologg of the. Intertebrata. 



With Plate I. 



"Nature is, of course, wonderful in all her works — in some even admirable 

 — whilst there are others, such as the hippopotamus and the tapeworm, in 

 which she can hardly be said to have attained more than a succes d^estime." 



H. R. T., Camb. Rev., 1902, p. 216. 



nnHE following is an account of a small collection of Entozoa 

 -*- composed of specimens in the Museum at Colombo, and of 

 some others quite recently taken in different parts of Ceylon. 

 The collection is a very varied one, and, with the exception of the 

 Gordian worms, all the large groups which lead a primarily 

 entozoic life are represented. Protozoa in the form of Sporozoa, 

 Trematoda, Gestoda, Nematoda, Acanthocephala, Linguatulida, 

 all are there. 



I owe many words of gratitude to Dr. Von Linstow, Professor 

 A. Railliet, and Professor 0. Fuhrmann, who have helped me in 

 certain provinces which they have made peculiarly their own. 

 Indeed their patient responses to my much importunity have led 

 me to the conviction that parasitologists are amongst the most 

 good-natured and helpful of men. To my friend Dr. A. Willey, 

 Director of the Colombo Museum, I am indebted for the oppor- 

 tunity of describing the collection. 



PROTOZOA. 



Glass: SPOROZOA. 



Order : Sarcosporidia, Balbiani. 



SARCOCYSTIS TEN ELLA, Railliet. 



PI. I., figs. 10 and 17. 



Four specimens of a dirty gray colour outwardly, somewhat 



resembling proglottides of Gestoda, arrived with the collection 



from Ceylon. These were labelled " Found in piece of beef 



killed for food. Can migrate and goout of sight into the muscle."* 



* These specimens were collected and presented to the Museum by G. W. 

 Sturgess. Esq.. M.R,C.V.S.. Colonial Veterinary Surgeon. 



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