CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TAPE-WOPM. 139 



caecum, or, at the utmost, become bifurcate, but never, as in 

 T. solium divide dendritically. 



The ova, 0-016'" = 0-036 millim. in length, and 0012— 0014'" 

 = 0*028 — 0033 millim. in breadth, are on the average rather 

 smaller, of a lighter brown colour, smoother, more oval, and less 

 globular than in T. solium. The egg-capsules exhibit only two 

 consecutive lavers, and are more easilv broken than those of 

 T. solium. 



The scolex in unknown. In Dresden it cannot be rare, as the 

 Tcenia occurs there not uncommonly. Unfortunately our mate- 

 rial extends no further, and pigs have not been fed with the eggs 

 of this Tcenia. It is not improbable that the cystic worm 

 belonging to this species may occasionally occur amongst the 

 specimens pronounced to be Cysticercus cellulosce. A very intel- 

 ligent patient, from whom I at last expelled a Tcenia by means of 

 my extract of pomegranate root, writes me that he had observed 

 his Tcenia from the time when, during a long absence of his wife, 

 he had dined from home at an eating-house, and frequently ate 

 raw beef-steaks and green salad and radishes. The scolex was 

 either seated in the beef, or in mollusca, which might have been 

 in the salad or on the radishes. 



The embryos resemble in size and structure those of T. solium. 

 Their migrations are unknown. 



Habitat. — Its residence is not so limited as one might perhaps 

 suppose, for it appears to occur in Europe and Africa. As some 

 persons have found fault with my previous geographical diagram- 

 matic statements, I pass over them here, .and refer to my work 

 on the Cestoidea. 



Variety — Tcenia from the Cape of Good Hope. 

 PI. Ill, figs. 14—16. 



Nihil notum, nisi Strobilse pars posterior. Articidi per totum 

 corpus, crista longitudinali prcediti, crassi, et longi. Port gcnitales 

 marginales, alternantes. Uterus et ovula simillima illis Taeniae 

 mediocanellataj. Verisimillimum est, strobilam mild notam pro- 

 liferatam esse a Tsenipe mediocancllatoe scolice quodam 6 osculis 

 ornato. 



By the kindness of Dr. Rose, surgeon, at the Cape of Good 



