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with filaria. By frequent examinations of thick films at 

 different times this exclusion may be made. Absence of 

 eosinophilia confirms a negative diagnosis. 



Probably the last two are the same, and as the name 

 F. demarquayi had been previously employed, the worm 

 should be known as F. ozzardi. 



Filaria magalhdesi. Specimens of this worm, probably 

 an accidental parasite, were found in the left side of the 

 heart in a child in Brazil. Many of the current descrip- 

 tions of F. bancrofti are descriptions of this worm. No 

 corresponding embryos are known. 



