purulent, desquamative, intestinal catarrh and general 

 anaemic condition were constant. 



In August, 1878, Megnin (1878A, !>. 825) doscrihcd 

 as a new species (T. agama, afterwards (September, 

 1878B, p. 927) proposing to make it a variety (T. in 

 fundibulifomiis var. phasianorum), a tapeworm which 

 he found creating considerable trouble in th(> jihcus 

 aniries near Paris and Fontainebleau. He gave 11m' 

 following characters: 



Not over fiOmm long; head small, with about 100 hooks; ne<rk 

 variable, long: and filiform or short. Head not over l-4nim broa 1; 

 body imm to 3mm broad. Ovary fills the entire posterior half 

 of the body without being localized in each segment; segments 

 detach themselves as round discs, rather thick, and 1.7mm to 

 2mm in diameter, filled with eggs, collected in egg-sacs, about 

 7 eggs being present in each sac and about 80-100 sacs in each 

 segment. Megnin suggests that ants form the intermediate 

 host. 



The parasites injured their ho.sts by stopping up the 

 bowels, but good results in treatment resulted from 

 administering powdered Kamala mixed with the food. 

 Tn the second note Mt^'gnin states; that the pores are 

 unilateral. 



Neumann (1S88, p. 433; 1892.\, p. 471; 1893B, p. 483) erroneously 

 attributes the combination Taenia cesticillus var. pha.<!ianoruni 

 to Megnin (1887, p. 828); (this reference given by Neumann 

 should undoubtedly read 1878, p. 928, as there were only 823 

 pages in the Recueil of 1887, and Megnin apparently did not 

 publish upon this species in 1887, 1. e., so far as I have been able 

 to trace). Railliet (1893, pp. .308-309) thinks it probable that 

 Megnin's species is identical with the worm described by 

 Friedberger (1877) and named by von Linstow (1878). 



