376 ANIMAL PARASITES. 



Femina: caudd obiusd, recta; ano in parte caudali; vagina 

 antrorsum sitd; utero simplid aut biloculari ; ovulis magnis 

 (0 - 06 — 0T2 mill.) Animalia ovi- aut vivipara. 



Dujardin treats of tlie Stronguli veri as the fourteenth genus 

 of his Neraatoules. Dicsing lias treated of the two species here 

 referred to in different places, and placed the Strongylus gigas 

 in his Genus LTV, Enstrongylus, of which he gives the following 

 description : " Carport subcylindrico, utrinque sensim attenuate, 

 capite corpore continuo, ore terminali, orbiculari, papilloso ; bursa 

 maris terminali, Integra, pene ji I if or mi tango, hand vaginato ; 

 vagina aut antrorsum aut reirorsum sitd ; systemati gangliorum 

 distinciissimo. Animalia ovi- aut vivipara, extra iuburn intes- 

 tinalem habitantia." 



1. Strongylus gigas. Tab. VIII, figs, a, b. 



Synon. : Enstrongylus gigas (Diesing) ; Lumbrici in renibus 

 (Blasius) ; aut renalis (Redi) ; Lumbricus sanguineus in rent canis 

 (Hartmann) ; les vers sortis des reins et de l'urethre (Moublet) ; 

 Ascaris visceralis aut renalis (Gmelin) ; Asc. canis et Mustela 

 martes (Schrauk) ; Dioclophyme (Collet-Meygret) ; Fusaria vis- 

 ceralis aid renalis (Zeder). 



Corpore rubro, cylindrico, longissimo, utrinque attenuato, striis 

 aid annulis transversis interruptis et 8 fasciis fibrarum langitudina- 

 lium instructo ; capite obtuso, truncato ; ore orbiculari 6 papillis 

 aut nodulis planiusculis, appropinguaniibus ; ossophago 15 — 22 

 mill, circiter longo, tenui et angustiore, quam canalis intestinalis. 



Mas : corpore antrorsum magis attenuato, 140 ad 140 mill. = 

 10" — 1' longo, 4 — 6 mill, lato ; caudd obtusd cam bursa membra- 

 naced pateltiformi, circa 3 mill, lata, truncatd ; pene tenuissimo 

 simplid. 



Femina : corpore utrinque attenuato, 2 decim. ad 1 metr. = 

 5" — 3' longo, 5 — 12 mill, lato ; caudd magis recta, obtuso-rotun- 

 datd ; ano triangularis oblongo, sub extremitate caudali sito ; 

 vagina antrorsum sitd ; utero simplid ; ovulis fere globulosis. 



Bremser has already shown that this worm, which occurs, 

 although rarely, in the abdominal cavity, the omentum, but 

 especially in the kidneys and urinary bladder, more rarely in the 

 lungs and liver, and only when strayed in the intestinal canal of 

 martens, dogs, wolves, seals, otters, oxen, and horses, is still more 



