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DE. F. E, BEDDARD ON 



in Ophidotcenia *, where there is not a very marked funnel-shaped 

 int^rowth of the subcuticular layer to meet the cellular tube which 

 grows out from the uterus. It will be noted, however, that there 



P. 



Transverse section tlirougli middle of a proglottid of Solenotania viperis at 

 posterior end of uterine groove. 



d. Diverticula of uterus containing embrj-os. P. External pore which forms the 

 commencement of the ventral viterine groove. U. Uterus. F. Vagina, which 

 is seen cut through twice, being coiled in this region near to the ovary. 



is some comparison possible between the conditions that I have 

 just described and those asserted to exist by Zschokke in certain 

 allied genera of Cestodes, 



* P. Z. S. 1913, p. 30, text-fig. 9. 



