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Situated laterally to the anus is a prominent projecting papilla in the vicinit}' of 

 which are two more. Behind these on each side are four others, the last projecting 

 on the ala and situated close to the mueronate tip of th(^ tail. There are thus thirteen 

 or fourteen pairs hut some may not be develojjed on one or other side. The shape of 

 the male tail and the papillary tUstribution in the specimens examined by me are 

 more hke that figured by Schneider though the number of jjapillae approximates that 

 recorded by Travassos. 



Xeumami^® has referred to constitutional disturbances set up by A. columboe 

 when present in abundance. 



Dr. Sweeti" ju 1910 found a few specimens of a Hetemkis from a domestic 

 fowl in Victoria which she regarded as being closely related to H. maculosa. Though 

 some of the characters mentioned suggest that the specimens belong to a species of 

 Ascaridia, yet the differences between them and A. columixe, as mentioned by Dr. 

 Sweet, preclude the possibiUty of these fowl parasites being included under the latter 

 specific name. 



•* Neumann, I.e., pp. 146-8. 



" G. Sweet, Some New and Unrecorded Parasites from Australian Chickens, P.R.S. Vict., 

 23, 1910, p. 246. 



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