302 DR. T. S. COBBOLD ON HUMAN ENTOZOA. [NoT. 25, 



16. Strongylus bronchialis, Cobbold. 



S. longevaginatus, Diesing, Kiichenmeister, Weinland. 



Filaria bronchialis, Rudolphi, Owen, Leidy. 



F. hominis bronchialis, Rudolphi, Dujardin, Diesing, Weinland. 



F. 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 o{ 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. EusTRONGYiiUS GiGAS, Dicsiug. 



E. gigas, Diesing. 



Strongylus gig as, 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. 

 Itumbricus in renibus, Blasius. 

 L. martis et canis renalis, Redi, 



L. sanguineus in rene canis, Hartmann. 

 L. gulonis sibirici, Pallas. 

 Diocotophyme, CoUet-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 



