﻿30.— 
  FURTHER 
  NOTES 
  ON 
  THE 
  OCCURRENCE 
  OF 
  COLEOPTERA 
  

   IN 
  THE 
  HUMAN 
  INTESTINE. 
  

  

  By 
  R. 
  A. 
  Senior 
  White, 
  F.E.S., 
  and 
  S. 
  K. 
  Sen, 
  B.Sc. 
  

  

  Since 
  ttie 
  first 
  author 
  publislied 
  Ms 
  original 
  note 
  on 
  this 
  subject 
  

   in 
  the 
  " 
  Indian 
  Journal 
  of 
  Medical 
  Research 
  " 
  (1920) 
  some 
  further 
  

   cases 
  have 
  been 
  reported. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Ceylon 
  Branch 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Medical 
  Associa- 
  

   tion 
  the 
  disease 
  is 
  recorded 
  from 
  Jaiina, 
  a 
  sea-board 
  town 
  in 
  the 
  extreme 
  

   north 
  of 
  Ceylon, 
  thus 
  extending 
  the 
  known 
  distribution 
  to 
  the 
  low 
  

   country 
  of 
  the 
  whole 
  island, 
  as 
  Matara, 
  from 
  whence 
  came 
  the 
  first 
  

   recognition 
  of 
  this 
  condition, 
  is 
  similarly 
  situated 
  near 
  the 
  southern- 
  

   most 
  point 
  of 
  the 
  country. 
  

  

  The 
  case 
  occurred 
  in 
  a 
  child 
  of 
  4 
  years, 
  with 
  serious 
  symptoms, 
  

   and 
  it 
  is 
  indeed 
  suspected 
  that 
  a 
  similar 
  agency 
  was 
  responsible 
  for 
  

   the 
  deaths 
  in 
  infancy 
  of 
  the 
  3 
  elder 
  children 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  parents. 
  Nothing 
  

   is 
  said 
  as 
  to 
  possible 
  modes 
  of 
  infection, 
  but 
  embryo-like 
  objects 
  with 
  

   a 
  distinct 
  alimentary 
  canal 
  were 
  seen 
  under 
  a 
  low 
  power 
  in 
  the 
  faeces, 
  

   which 
  were 
  further 
  notable 
  for 
  their 
  remarkable 
  freedom 
  from 
  ova 
  

   of 
  the 
  usual 
  intestinal 
  parasites. 
  The 
  sketches 
  of 
  the 
  beetle 
  and 
  the 
  

   " 
  embryo-like 
  objects 
  " 
  referred 
  to 
  in 
  the 
  article 
  are 
  most 
  unfortunately 
  

   not 
  reproduced. 
  The 
  beetle 
  is 
  referred 
  to 
  in 
  the 
  title 
  as 
  a 
  " 
  Rhyncho- 
  

   porus 
  " 
  ! 
  This 
  is 
  presumably 
  meant 
  for 
  Rhynchophorus 
  but 
  the 
  behaviour 
  

   of 
  the 
  beetles 
  on 
  deposition 
  is 
  described 
  as 
  being 
  exactly 
  similar 
  to 
  

   that 
  of 
  Onthophagus 
  bifasciatus 
  as 
  recorded 
  in 
  the 
  original 
  note, 
  and 
  

   there 
  is 
  little 
  doubt 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  this 
  or 
  a 
  similar 
  Coprine 
  species 
  which 
  is 
  

   meant. 
  Who 
  is 
  responsible 
  for 
  identification 
  is 
  not 
  stated, 
  and 
  the 
  

   generic 
  name 
  probably 
  is 
  entirely 
  misapplied. 
  It 
  is 
  likely 
  that 
  the 
  

   only 
  beetle 
  known 
  by 
  name 
  to 
  the 
  Medical 
  Author 
  is 
  the 
  redpalm 
  

   weevil 
  {Rhynchophorus 
  ferrugineus) 
  and 
  he 
  possibly 
  labours 
  under 
  the 
  

   delusion 
  that 
  the 
  scientific 
  name 
  of 
  all 
  beetles 
  is 
  " 
  Rhynchoporus." 
  

  

  The 
  same 
  author 
  mentions 
  en 
  ^passant 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  another 
  

   case 
  at 
  Mihintale, 
  a 
  village 
  near 
  Anuradhapura, 
  from 
  whence 
  the 
  disease 
  

   was 
  recorded 
  in 
  the 
  original 
  note. 
  

  

  The 
  disease 
  is 
  also 
  recorded 
  from 
  Bengal 
  and 
  in 
  this 
  case 
  the 
  Doctor 
  

   recording 
  it 
  fortunately 
  forwarded 
  specimens 
  to 
  the 
  second 
  author. 
  

   The 
  symptoms 
  in 
  the 
  Bengal 
  case 
  were 
  practically 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  those 
  

   in 
  the 
  cases 
  reported 
  from 
  Ceylon, 
  the 
  insects 
  being 
  voided 
  with 
  the 
  

  

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