FILARIA (?) CONJUNCTIVE 



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FIG. 286. Filaria(?) conjunctiva : to the left, life size; to the light, the 

 anterior extremity magnified. (After Addario.) 



This species (115 mm. long) was first observed in Milan by Dubini in the eye of 

 a man; subsequently it was observed, encysted and calcified (190 mm. long), by 

 Babes in the gastro-splenic omenlum of a woman in Budapest, and finally one 

 (95 mm. long) was extracted by Vadela from a tumour the size of a pea in the ocular 

 conjunctiva of a woman in Catania (Sicily), which case has been described by 

 Addario. Possibly Agamofilaria palpebralis, Pace, 1867 (nee Wilson, 1844), and 

 A. oeuli humani, v. Nordm., 1832, are the same species. 



FIG. 287. Filaria (?) conjunctiva : anterior end greatly magnified ; 

 the mouth with the pharynx in the middle ; in the cuticle on the right 

 side the opening of the vagina, and behind it the excretory pore. 

 (After Grassi.) 



