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accessory piece (fig. 38, a. p.), which is slender and curved. It measures about 

 o*i8 mm. in length and has a spur at about o - o6 mm. from its anterior end. 



The male genital tube is much coiled and reaches to within 07 mm. of the 

 oesophageal bulb. 



The number and disposition of the caudal papillae in the male, the length of the 

 spicules and accessory piece and the position of the vulva in the female are salient 

 characters which serve to distinguish Subuhira galloperdicis from the other members 

 of this genus occurring in galliform birds. 



There are five members of this group which possess eleven pairs of papillae, viz., 8. currata (v. 

 Linst., 1883), S. strongylina (Rud. 1819), S. olympioi, Barreto, 1919, ' S. halli, Barreto, 1919 l and 

 8. seurati, Barreto, 19 19. L 



S. curvata has unequal spicules measuring T2 and - 9 mm. respectively, and the papillae are made 

 up as follows: — 2 pairs preanal, 2 adanal. and 7 postanal. 8. strongylina possesses a chitinous tail 

 appendage. The papillae consist of 3 preanal, 2 adanal, and 6 postanal pairs. The spicules measure 

 - 899 mm. in length. 8. olympioi has 3 pairs of preanal, two pairs of adanal and six pairs of postanal 

 papillae. 8. halli has five pairs of preanal papillae; and the spicules measure 1*5 mm. in length. In 

 8. seurati the spicules are unequal and there are 5 pairs of preanal papillae, while the vulva is situated 

 at the junction of the anterior and middle thirds of the body. 



Subulura, sp. 



The collection contains two females of a species of Subulura taken from the 

 Button-Quail (Turnix, sp.) One of the specimens is badly damaged. The complete 

 specimen measures 14 mm. in length and 0*41 mm. in thickness. The head measures 

 about o - o8 mm. in diameter. The buccal capsule is 0*035 mm - deep and o*d2 mm. 

 wide. The usual teeth are present. 



Narrow cephalic alae extend as far as the beginning of the prebulbar oesophageal 

 swelling. The total length of the oesophagus is it mm., while the diameter of the 

 bulb, which is roughly spherical, is 0*15 mm. The nerve-ring encircles the oesphagus 

 at 0T mm. from the anterior end. The excretory pore opens at 0-4 mm. from the 

 head in the median ventral line. The anus is situated at 032 mm. from the tip of the 

 tail, which is acutely pointed. The vulva is situated at 6t mm. from the anterior 

 end. The posteriorly-directed vagina is just discernible. For the rest the body of 

 the worm is completely filled with eggs, reaching anteriorly up to within 0*07 mm. of 

 the anterior end, and posteriorly to within ot mm. of the tip of the tail. The eggs 

 are in various stages of development, some containing fully-formed embryos. They 

 are thin-shelled and measure 0^085 X o - 056 mm. 



It is not possible to assign these specimens to a definite species. 



Family OXYURIDAE, Cobbold, 1864. 

 Genus Oxyuris, Rud., 1803. 

 Oxyuris anthropopitheci, Gedoelst, 1916 (?). 

 Host : Black-headed lemur * (probably Lemur brunneus). 



1 In Barreto's (1919) monograph of the subfamily Subulurinae, these species are given as " S. olympioi , Barreto , 

 1918," " S. halli, Barreto, 1917 " and " S. seurati, Barreto, 1917." The names, however, do not appear to have been 

 p ublished previously to 1919, although the work was in preparation in 1917. 



