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pui'uleut, desquamative, intestinal catarrh and general 

 anaemic condition were constant. 



In August, 1878, M^gnin (1878A, p. 825) described 

 as a new species (T. agama, afterwards (September, 

 1878B, p. 927) proposing (o make it a variety (T. in 

 fundibuliformis var. phasianorum), a tapeworm which 

 he found creating considerable trouble in the })heas- 

 antries near Paris and Fontainebleau. He gave the 

 following characters: 



Not over 60mm long; head small, with about lOO hooks; neck 

 variable, long and filiform or short. Head not over l-4mm broal ; 

 body imm to 3mm broad. Ovary fills the entire posterior half 

 of the body without being- localized in each segment; segments 

 detach themselves as round discs, rather thick, and 1.7mm to 

 2mm in diameter, filled with eggs, collected in egg-sacs, about 

 7 eggs being present in each sac and about 80-100 sacs in each 

 segment. Megnin suggests that ants form the intermediate 

 host. 



The parasites injured their hosts by stopping up the 

 bowels, but good results in treatment resulted from 

 administering powdered Tvamala mixed with the food. 

 Fn the second note Megnin states that the pores are 

 unilateral. 



Neumann (1888, p. 433; 1892A, p. 471; 1892IB, p. 485) erroneously 

 attributes the combination Taenia cesticillus var. phasianorum 

 to Megnin (1887, p. S28) ; (this reference given by Neumann 

 should undoutbtedly read 1878, p. 928, as there were only 823 

 pages in the Recueil of 1887, and Megnin apparently did not 

 publish upon this species in 1887, i. e., so far as I have been able 

 to trace). Railliet (1893, pp. 308-309) thinks it probable that 

 Megnin's species is identical with the worm described by 

 Priedberger (1877) and named by von Linstow (1878). 



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