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transversely, the Insr fonniiin" a kind of lar£;'e stria looking 

 backwards. Tliu si)ines lorm a V-sliaped curve looking fonvards. 

 (ii'nital opening's at a large slit behind the anterior epimercs. 



Male: 0*18 — nun. long l)y 0"11- — O'l-") nnii. hroad. Bodt/ 

 smaller :iml loss rounded than that of female. Cephalothorax 

 distinct from abdomen and with well marked rings. Limbs, 

 anterior, like those of female ; posterior, brought nearer the cen- 

 tral line of the body and having their epimercs united to form 

 two arches, outer with a long seta, inner bearing small cnps. 

 Genital organs, near internal posterior limbs in an eliptical 

 opening directed from before backwards containing a chitinous 

 apparatus consisting of two parts, the sternite and the hyposter- 

 nite. j4«ai fi^)eri (ire, retrodorsal and on the margin of tlio body. 



Appendix VIII.— MATERIA MEDICA AXD THERA- 

 PEUTICS. 



The Nile Expedition Regulation unit pattern medicine chest 

 was 10 inches deep, IG inches broad, 14 inches long, and 11| lbs. 

 in Aveight or when complete weighed 32 lbs. It contained 

 McDougall's sheep dip, 10 lbs.; oils of turpentine and linseed of 

 each 2 lbs. in a corked tin ; carbolic acid and carbonate of am- 

 monia of each 1 lb. in tin ; also a syringe, drenching horn, enema 

 funnel and pipe, tow, fomenting cloth, sponge, and metal dis- 

 pensing bowl. The chests were fastened each by two straps and 

 buckles, marked '^ Army Veterinary Department" and instruc- 

 tions for use of medicines were pasted inside the lid. 



Queriple advocates unit chests on a more elaborate scale for use 

 by Veterinary Sui'geons in charge of camels on service contain- 

 ing a clyster funnel, 2 oz. syringe, firing iron, mortar and pestle, 

 scales and weights (4 oz.), graduated glass measure (4 oz.), 

 and bullet forceps, of each one ; Avhale-bone probes, seton needles 

 and handle, hanks of wire, forceps, drenching horns, of each two ; 

 needlesfor wire, 4; scalpels, 12. Also (as stores) canvas 10 yards, 

 tow 20 lbs., sponges 12 per 100 camels for 6 months. Of medicines 

 the following were most generally useful, amnion, carl)., aloes 

 barb., canth. tinct., creta proep., opii pulv., ferri sulph., acid 

 carbol., ol. tcreb., argenti nitras (OjQBcial Report). 



