﻿WORMS COLLECTED AT BEAUFORT, N. C. — PEARSE 31 



Order DIGENEA 

 Suborder Gasterostomata 



Family GASTEROSTOMIDAE : Subfamily 

 Gasterostominae 



BUCEPHALUS GRACILESCENS RHdolphi 



Three encysted gasterostomes were taken from the enterons of two 

 of six silversides, Menidia menidia (Linnaeus), examined on July 10. 



Suborder Prostomata 

 Family FELLODISTOMIDAE : Subfamily Fellodistominae 



LINTONIUM VIBEX (Linton) 



This trematode infested the inflation sac of the northern swellfish, 

 Sphoeroides maculatus (Bloch and Schneider). From one host six 

 were collected on June 26 ; from two hosts five and three on J uly 29. 



STERINGOTREMA CORPULENTUM (Lintoa) 



Six of these trematodes were taken from Lagodon rhorriboides (Lin- 

 naeus) on June 30, and 50 from one Orthopristis chrysopterus (Lin- 

 naeus) on July 10, Linton (1905) took them from the same hosts 

 at Beaufort. 



Family MONORCHIIDAE 



TERGESTLA PECTINATA (Linton) 



Twenty of these worms were taken from the intestines of two of three 

 Cynoscion regalis (Bloch and Schneider) on June 30. 



PARAMONORCHEIDES BIVITTELOSUS Manter 



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Four specimens were taken from the intestines of one Symphumis 

 plagiusa (Linnaeus) on July 26 and five more from one of two hosts 

 of the same species on July 31. 



GENOPLA JVONUTA Manter 



This trematode was rather common in the intestine of Fundulus 

 majalis (Walbaum) : 425 from eight males and from seven females 

 on June 18 ; 158 from ten on June 22 ; and 58 from two of six females 

 and 2 from four males on July 13. 



