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Moniliformis kalahariensis Meyer, 1931 
Disease.—Intestinal parasite of the definitive host. 
Natural intermediate hosts—Blattella germanica, India, Bombay 
(Meyer, 1931, 1932). 
Definitive hosts —Hedgehog (Erinaceus frontalis) ; bird (Pterocles 
namaqua), Africa (Meyer, 1931, 1932). 
Phylum ASCHELMINTHES 
Class NEMATODA 
Order OX YUROIDEA 
Family SUBULURIDAE 
Subulura jacchi (Diesing, 1861) Railliet and Henry, 1914 
Disease.—Intestinal parasite of primates. 
Experimental intermediate hosts—Blaberus fuscus (Thunberg) 
[sic], France (Chabaud and Lariviére, 1955): Both encapsulated 
larvae and larvae free in the body cavity were found in the same 
cockroach. The free larvae grew more rapidly. At 25°C. infective 
larvae appeared in about 12 days. The infective third-stage larvae 
underwent a contraction that rendered them almost spherical. At- 
tempts to infect Periplaneta americana were negative. 
Definitive hosts —Wistiti, Hapale jacchus (L.), in captivity. Other 
South American primates. 
Order SPIRUROIDEA 
Family THELAZIIDAE 
Oxyspirura mansoni (Cobbold, 1879) Ransom, 1904 
Synonymy.—Oxyspirura parvovum Sweet, 1910, the Australian 
eyeworm of poultry, may be the same as O. mansoni, as there is some 
question as to the validity of O. parvovum (Tryon, 1926). 
Disease.—Eyeworm infection in poultry. 
Common name.—Manson’s eyeworm of poultry ; chicken eyeworm, 
tropical eyeworm. 
Natural intermediate hosts ——Pycnoscelus (=Leucophaea) suri- 
namensis, Australia (Fielding, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1928a). U.S.A, 
Florida (Sanders, 1927, 1928, 1929; Shealy, 1927). Formosa (Ko- 
bayashi, 1927). Antigua (Hutson, 1938, 1943). Hawaii (Illingworth, 
1931; Schwabe, 1950, 1950a, 1950b, 1951). The Japanese quail 
(Coturmx coturnix japonica) is commonly infected with eyeworms, 
but Pycnoscelus was not found to be a food for this bird in Hawaii; 
