386 MR. R. OWEN ON A NEW SPECIES OF TAPE-WORM. 
TNIA LAMELLIGERA. 
Ten. incrassata, capite subgloboso ; rostello cylindrico obtuso ; collo nullo ; articulis bre- 
vissimis, marginibus lateralibus dilatatis, rotundatis, utrinque partm extantibus ; su- 
perficie utrdque lined longitudinali leviter impressd ; lemniscis lateralibus oppositis. 
‘Longitudo corporis, 7 unc. ; latitudo, 5 lin; crassities, 1 lin. 
Hab. in Phenicopteri rubri intestinis tenuibus. 
PLATE XLI. 
Figg. 21 to 23. Tania LAMELLIGERA. 
Fig. 21. Tenia lamelligera, natural size. 
22. Four segments of the same magnified. 
23. A longitudinal section of three posterior segments, showing the ova collected 
near the base of the lemniscus. 
ee x—— 
