302 DR. T. S. COBBULD ON HUMAN ENTOZOA. __[Nov. 25, 
16. StRONGYLUS BRONCHIALAS, Cobbold. 
S. longevaginatus, Diesing, Kiichenmeister, Weinland. 
Filaria bronchialis, Rudolphi, Owen, Leidy. 
F.. hominis bronchialis, Rudolphi, Dujardin, Diesing, Weinland. 
EF’. lymphatica, Moquin-Tandon. 
Hamularia lymphatica, Treutler, Jordens. 
H. subcompressa, Rudolphi, Bremser. 
Tentacularia subcompressa, Zeder. 
Diesing and Weinland have expressed their suspicions as to the 
identity of Filaria bronchialis with Strongylus longevaginatus; whilst 
Kiichenmeister has gone further and pronounced them to be one and 
the same species. Concurring in this view, I have thought it right 
to combine the specific title originally given by Rudolphi with the 
generic allocation employed by Diesing; and if helminthologists 
generally adopt our views of their identity, I think they will admit 
the propriety of the nomenclature here superscribed. 
The original specimens were discovered by Treutler in Germany, 
during the winter of 1791, in the bronchial glands of an emaciated 
subject ; whilst those sent to Diesing for description were discovered 
by Dr. Fortsitz at Klausenberg, in Transylvania, in the lungs of a 
boy six years old. 
17. EustronGywus Gieas, Diesing. 
E. gigas, Diesing. 
Strongylus gigas, Rudolphi, Otto, Cuvier, Brera, Blainville, Chiaje, 
Owen, Gurlt, Dujardin, Stratton, Jackson, Blanchard, Kiichenmeis- 
ter, Leidy, Weinland. 
S. renalis, Moquin-Tandon. 
Ascaris renalis, Gmelin. 
A, visceralis, Gmelin. 
A. canis et martis, Schrank. 
Fusaria renalis, Zeder. 
F. visceralis, Zeder. 
Lumbricus in renibus, Blasius. 
L. martis et canis renalis, Redi, 
L. sanguineus in rene canis, Hartmann. 
L. gulonis sibirici, Pallas, 
Diocotophyme, Collet-Meygret. 
Though fortunately very rare in man, this worm is known to 
occur in a great variety of animals, especially in Weasels. Accord- 
ing to Weinland and Jackson, it is particularly abundant in the kid- 
ney of the North American Mink (Mustela vison, Cuvier), destroy- 
ing the substance of the organ, the walls of which become the seat 
of calcareous deposit. It has been found in the dog, wolf, glutton, 
raccoon, otter, seal, ox, and horse. Otto, Owen, and Blanchard have 
given descriptions of its anatomy, all of them recognizing a well- 
defined nervous system ; further researches, however, are needed to 
explain away certain discrepancies in their writings, and especially 
also in regard to the water-vascular system, the very existence of 
