54 TRICOCEPHALUS. Class VI. 



GENUS II. TRICOCEPHALUS. 



Body round, variously twisted, thickest in front, 



furnished with a slender proboscis. 

 Tail long, capillary, tapering to a point. 



1. Hominis. Turton Br. Faun. 126. Lond. Med. Soc. v. t. 3. 



[Tr. body of a pale color, crenate above, smooth 

 underneath, two inches long ; head obtuse, fur- 

 nished with a proboscis, which it can protrude 

 and draw in at pleasure; tail or thinner part 

 twice the length of the body. 

 In the human intestines. 



2. Eftui. Turton Br. Faun. 126. Gozee Eingev. 118. t. Q.f. &. 



[Tr. resembles the last, but rather longer. 

 In the intestines of the horse. Ed. 



