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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



A List of T-wenty-foub Micro-specimens of Intestinal Worms and Insects, 

 sent by W. Morris, L.F.P.G.S., sent through the Agricultural Society of 

 New South Wales, Sydney, to the Royal Microscopical Society, London, for 

 identification. 



Nos. 



Classification. 



10 

 11 



12 



13 

 14 

 15 



16 

 17 



18 



19 



In various [20 

 stages of 1 21 

 develop, j 



23 

 24 



Head of tape-worm. 



Segment of tape-worm. 



Ditto ditto, further developed. 



Female lung-worm. 



Ditto ditto, prepared to show eggs and embryo worms in situ. 



Male limg-worm. 



Embryo worms in mucus from the bronchi. 



Female intestinal worm from third stomach of the sheep, prepared 

 to show spiral canals, eggs, &c. 



Female intestinal worm (natural state), showing barb-like appen- 

 dages near the head. 



Male intestinal worm. 



Female intestinal worm found in the fcecal matter in the rectum of 

 the sheep. 



Male ditto ditto. The sheep in which these two worms were got, 

 Nos. 8 and 9 were not found, but a very large number of the 

 Amphistoma were seen in the rumen of said sheep. 



Female worm found in the fat surrounding the kidney of the pig. 



Male ditto ditto. 



Head, the worm showing oral orifice with the papilla; armed with 

 minute lancet-pointed teeth. 



Caudal extremity of the male. 



Eggs of the pig-worm. 



Ditto ditto, taken from a cyst f in. "in length and § in. in 

 diameter, the solid parts of the worm having disappeared, leav- 

 ing a brownish fluid in the cyst, this. No. 18, being a specimen 

 of said fluid. 



Amphistoma conicum, this worm being disputed by Mr. Krefft, 

 curator of the Museum, as to its being an Amphistoma, he 

 stating it to be a larva of a distoma, I maintaining that it is a 

 sexual mature worm on account of its eggs, &c. 



c, „ • , n iu T V 11 „• ' r Tliis fly has attacked the 



Small insect from the Isabella vine. ^j^^j/ ^^ ^^^ deciduous 



Di to ditto, embryo wmgs. swarming in millions 



Ditto ditto, without wings. ( ^^^^ ^j^^ ^^^^ - _ 



Wing of insect showing it is a Thysanoptera, but we decline to 



name it. 

 Aphis (larva) from the leaf of the Eucalyptus, found generally 



between two leaves, gummed together. 



Mr. Mclntii-e contributed a paper entitled " An Incident in the 

 Life of a Chelifer." 



Dr. Cobbold then proceeded to give an extended comment upon his 

 Eeport on the Specimens of Intestinal Worms from Australia. Passing 

 in rapid review the various species which were well known in this 

 country, and therefore needed no descrijition, he came to the less 

 known forms, one of which (Stejihaniirus) was first discovered by Nat- 

 terer, the traveller, on one of the Brazilian rivers (the Barra do, Eio 

 Negro), on the 24th March, 1834. Since then no one appeared to 

 have seen this parasite, or if seen, it had not been recognized. Thirty- 



