44,2 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Possible Entrance of 
14. Pseudocolapsis splendidula. 
P. lete eeneo-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 Cisforum in locis 
inferioribus et subinferioribus degens. 
Fam. Ulomide. 
Genus HyporHievs. 
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 eequaliter (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. 15-13. 
Habitat in pinetis Teneriffee et Palme, arbores emortuas antiquas 
perforans. 
XLVII.—Notes on the Possibility of the Embryos of the Guinea- 
Worm and so-called “ Fungus-Discase” of India, respectively, 
entering the Human Body through the Sudorific Ducts. By 
H, J. Carter, 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 Fuilaride of the free 
Para 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 indirectly 
through the ducts of the sudorific glands, the latter being much — 
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 seis 1861. 
+ Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 3. vol. iv. pp. 28, 98, 
