NEW TAPEWORMS PROM THE HYRAX. 



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in alcohol to contract upwards or downwards, thvis forming a 

 hollow or convex surface as the case may be. The characters 

 already given allow us to separate the present species from 

 /. hyracis*, in which the scolex is not of greater diameter than 

 the ensuing region of the strobila, and from /. settii t, where the 

 total number of proglottids is very small {i. e. 30-70). 



Text-fig. 72. 



A nearly complete example and two fragments of Inermicapsifer capensis. 



X 2. 



I do not at this stage of my description attempt to difierentiate 

 between this species and the others dealt with in Janicki's 



* Janicki, loc. cit. pi. xii. fig. 1. 

 f Janicki, loc. cit. pi. xii. fig. 10., 



