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dependent on age nor situation. They are equally present and 

 abundant in the pork-measle, and in the specimens of Gysticer- 

 cus cellulosce derived from the human subject. The cephalic hooks 

 of this cestode are comparatively large, those of the greater series 

 measuring as much as uo\ whilst the smaller have an extreme length 

 of about ^". The sharp thorn-like extremities of the hooks of 

 both circles terminate outwardly at a common point of distance 

 from the centre of the rostellum ; so that a line carried from point 

 to point, in succession, will indicate the circumferential limit of the 

 double crown, forming, in fact, a simple circle. The roots and 



Fi&. 46. — Fragment of the strobile of Tcenia solium, Linneus ; showiug, more particularly, the 

 reproductive apparatus and water vessels of a single proglottis. — Eokitansky. 



stems of the hooks are received into a corresponding double series 

 of socket-like pouches, which are visible even when the hooks them- 

 selves may be wanting. They were, I believe, first accurately de- 

 scribed by Kuchenmeister. The tegumentary covering of the head 

 differs in no important particular from that of the rest of the body, 

 displaying an external thin, smooth, transparent, chitinous epidermis 

 superimposed on a rather thick, fibrous corium. Beneath the 



