NO. 5 INTERMEDIATE HOSTS OF ASIATIC BLOOD FLUKE BARTSCH 45 



penultimate, 14 on the third from the last, 15 on the fourth from 

 the last, 17 on the fifth from the last, and 15 on the sixth from the 

 last, which is also the last whorl to show developed ribs. 



There are three additional specimens, U.S.N.M. no. 420955, which 

 yield the followin^^ measurements : 



This species can be differentiated from the other two that have 

 7 : 5 denticles on the marginals by having the shell much more elongate 

 and more whorls, and the ribs much less strongly developed. 



ONCOMELANIA HUPENSIS Gredler 



Plate I, fig. 17; ijlatr 2, fig. 14; plate 5, fig. 5 



1881. Oucomclania hupensis Gredlek, Jahrb. Dciitsch. Malakoz. (Jcs., vol. 8, 



pp. 120-1, pi. 6, fig. 5. 

 1888. Prososthcnia hupensis Mollendokkf, Malakoz. Blatt., n. s., vol. 10, pp. 



142-3. 

 1888. Oucomclania hupensis Mollendorff, Malakoz. Blatt.. n. s., vol. 10, pp. 



142-3. 

 1890. Prososthcnia hupensis Schmacker and Bottger, Nachrichtsbl. Deutsch. 



Malakoz. Ges., vol. 22, pp. 126-7. 

 1890. Oncotnelania houpcnsis Heude, Mem. Concern. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chinois, 



p. 167. 

 1890. Onconiclania hupensis Heude, Mem. Concern. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chinois, 



p. 170. 

 1890. Hcniibia hupensis Heude, Mem. Concern. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chinois, p. 170. 

 1912. Oucomclania hupensis Bavay and Dautzenberg, Journ. Conchyl., vol. 60, 



p. 38. 

 1924. Onconiclania hupensis Faust, Amer. Journ. Hyg., vol. 4, p. 275. 

 1924. Onconiclania hupensis Faust and Meleney, Amer. Journ. Hyg., Mon. 



Ser. no. 3, p. 82. 

 1924. Oncomelania hupensis Annandale, Amer. Journ. Hj-g., Mon. Ser. no. 3, 



pp. 285-7, i" part. 

 1926. Onconiclania (Hemibia) hupensis Germain and Nevei-Lemaire, Ann. 



Parasit., vol. 4, p. 294. 



1928. Hemibia hupensis Bequaert, Journ. Trop. Med., vol. 8, p. 177; 224-5. 



1929. Oncomelania hupensis Thiele, Handb. Syst. Weicht., pt. i, p. 150. 

 1934- Oncom,clauia hupensis Bequaert, Journ. Parasit., vol. 20, pp. 281-2. 



Shell broadly elongate-conic, wax yellow. Nuclear whorls 2, well 

 rounded, minute, granulose, the early succeeding postnuclear turns 



