PARASITES OF FISHES OF BEAUFORT, NORTH CAROLINA. 

 Stolephorus brownii. Striped Anchovy. 



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NEMATODES. 



1. Immature nematodes ( Ascaris). 



1902. — July 17, 1; common type, diverticulum from both oesophagus and intestine. 



CESTODES. 



2. Scolex polymorphus Rudolphi. 



July 16; numerous; very small, one costa an. I red pigment. July 17; several. 



TKEMATODES. 



.'!. I lithium m sp. [Fit;. 166.] 



This is a young form of some distome related t<. I>. veliporum. 



1902. — July l(i, a small, immature distome seen while the food was heing examined under the 

 compound microscope. Dimensions, life, in millimeters: Length 0.25; breadth 0.16; diameter of oral 

 sucker 0.08, of ventral sucker 0.10. July 17, 1; apparently same species, but a larger specimen; length 

 1.2; breadth 0.6; diameter of anterior sucker 0.14, of ventral sucker 0.28. 

 4. Gasterostomum gracilescens Rudolphi. 



1902. — July 30, few, encapsuled on viscera. 



See under Menidia menidia and Jylosurus marinus. 



Synodus foetens, Lizard Fish, Sand Pike. 



ACANTHOCEPHALA. 



1. Echinorhynchus proteus Westrumb. 



1901. — July 31, 2. A few nodules were noticed on the external surface of the intestine, which 

 were at first thought to be cysts due to some larval cestode or nematode. They proved to be due to 

 the head of this worm, which had penetrated the intestinal wall. 



2. Echinorhynchus sagittifer Linton. 



1901. — July 31, 1, from body cavity, on viscera. 



B. B. F. 1901—23 



