442 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Possible Entrance of 
14, Pseudocolapsis splendidula. 
P. lete seneo-cuprea, grosse sed breviter argenteo pubescens, dense 
punctata; antennis longiusculis, rufescentibus, apicem versus plus 
minus obscurioribus; pedibus rufescentibus. 
Long. corp. lin. 13-2. 
Habitat in Canaria, Palma et Hierro, ad flores Oistorum in locis 
inferioribus et subinferioribus degens. 
Fam. Ulomida. 
Genus HyporHievus. 
Fabricius, Skrivt. af Nat. Selsk. (1790). 
15. Hypophleus nocivus. 
H, subcylindrico-linearis, rufo-ferrugineus, parum nitidus; capite 
prothoraceque sat dense punctulatis, hoc convexo elongato-sub- 
quadrato, antice et postice equaliter (sed vix) angustiore ; oculis 
magnis, obliquis, nigris; elytris parallelis, parcius leviusque punc- 
tulatis, obsoletissime (vix perspicue) substriatis, ad apicem trun- 
catis, pygidium haud tegentibus; antennis brevissimis, crassis, 
fusiformibus ; pedibus rufo-testaceis. 
Long. corp. lin. 14-12. 
Habitat in pinetis Teneriffe et Palmee, arbores emortuas antiquas 
perforans. 
XLVII.—WNotes on the Possibility of the Embryos of the Guinea- 
Worm and so-called “ Fungus-Disease”’ of India, respectively, 
entering the Human Body through the Sudorific Ducts. By 
H. J. Canrur, F.R.S.* 
In my “Observations on Dracunculus,”’ published in the 4th 
Number of the ‘Transactions’ of the Society (New Series) +, I 
have stated, at page 217, that the young Filaride of the free 
species, which abound in the Island of Bombay during the 
“rains,” and throughout the year in most of the tanks, “ might 
pass into the human body through the skin direct, or indirectl 
through the ducts of the sudorific glands, the latter being muc 
larger in calibre (viz. 1-1200th of an inch) than these young 
Filaride,”’—assuming that Dracunculus, when fully developed 
in the human body, is a monster-growth of a worm whose 
natural habitat is out of the body, that the young ones which 
it then brings forth are too delicate to maintain an independent 
existence, and thus unable to propagate the species, and that, 
therefore, the Guinea-worm is introduced. 
No case, however, has yet occurred where a young Filaria of 
* Communicated by the author, having been read in part before the 
Medical and Physical Society of Bombay on the 5th of October, 1861. 
+ Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 3. vol. iv. pp. 28, 98. 
