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left the egg-shell, swimming about in the body-cavity of 

 the mother, whereas the others were still enveloped by 

 it ; a few eggs were still in various degrees of segmenta- 

 tion. In the uterus of the other numerous specimens 

 studied and examined by me, I never observed embryos, 

 but only eggs in different degrees of segmentation, the 

 number of which varied from one to nine. These eggs 

 are 51 — 55 ^ long, about half as broad, and both extremi- 

 ties are broadly rounded. 



The tail of the female, resembling that of Bhabd. teres, 

 Schn., appears bluntly rounded, with conical, pointed ter- 

 mination, which is about half as long as the distance between 

 the anus and the extremity of the tail (PL Y, fig. 3 /). 

 Similarly, as in that species, the internal layers of the 

 cuticula diverge from the external, so that it gives the im- 

 pression that two tails are pushed into one another, and, 

 just as in Bhabd. teres, on each lateral side of the tail a 

 minute, distinctly innervated papilla is found, situated in 

 Bhabd. oxycerca , however, just at the base of the free conical 

 termination. In the body-cavity of most female specimens, 

 between the muscular layer and the intestine and sexual 

 organs, a close layer of fat-granules was observed, by 

 which the said parts are hidden ; the alimentary canal 

 and the sexual organs become, therefore, more or less 

 inconspicuous in these individuals, so that, e.g., the 

 valvular apparatus or part of the intestine are often 

 scarcely visible. I observed these fat granules likewise 

 in the male individuals, but they surround here chiefly 

 the posterior half of the oesophagus and the beginning of 

 the intestine, whereas they are almost wholly absent in 

 the posterior half of the body, in consequence of which the 

 portions of intestine and testis which lie there, are much 

 more conspicuous than in the female. 



Also young, just born, asexual individuals were studied. 



