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nence. On each side of the body is a smooth narrow band of a 

 lighter colour, which runs the whole length, and has the ap- 

 pearance, at first sight, of a wing, but it is not raised. 



Hab. 1 From India? 



From the collection of General Hardwick. 



32. Ascabis bifaria, Baird. (Tab. I. f. 2.) 



Body round, much narrower at anterior extremity than posterior ; 

 anterior third surrounded with numerous very close-set cir- 

 cular raised strife ; remainder of body smooth, with the strige 

 not raised, and about a quarter of a line apart from each other, 

 till within about half an inch of inferior extremity, which is 

 large, obtuse, and surrounded with numerous raised circular 

 lines or striae which give it a wrinkled appearance. Head rather 

 small ; valves rounded, wrinkled transversely, and slightly bifid 

 at the upper margin. Tail terminates in a papilla, and the 

 anus is lunar-shaped, and situate at the base of the papilla, 

 about half a line from the extremity. The whole surface, in 

 addition to the raised lines or striae, is covered with exceedingly 

 fine and immensely numerous striae. A line runs down each 

 side of body throughout its whole length. Length about 9 

 inches, breadth 5 lines. 



Hab. 1 From the Korea. 



Collected by Sir Edward Belcher, C.B. 



33. Ascabis sulcata. 



Ascaris sulcata, Rudolphi, Synopsis Entoz. 48 & 289, n. 50. 

 Hab. a. Intestines of Testudo mauritianus. 

 From the collection of Br. A. Smith. 

 Hah. b. 1 Intestines of Testudo grccca. 

 Presented by S. Birch, Esq. 



(Sub-genus II. Ascabidia, Dujardin.) 



Uterus divided into two opposite branches. 



1. Ascabidia inflexa. 



Ascaris teres galli (major), Goeze, Naturg. 76, t. 1, f. 4 & 7. 

 Fusaria reflexa (part),' Zeder, Nachtrag, 33, t. 4, f. 7 (non Fusaria 



inflexa, Zeder, 1. c. 36). 

 Ascaris vesicularis (part), Rudolphi, Hist. Nat. Entoz. ii. pt. 1, 129; 



Laink. An. S. Vert. iii. 207. 

 Ascaris inflexa, Rudolphi, Synopsis, 38 & 268, n."4; Bellingham, 



A, i n. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1844, xiii. 169, n. 4; Dujardin, Hist. 



Nat. Helminth. 216. 



