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The generative apparatus of the female consists (as usual in Strongyli- 
dae) of two tubes, or more exactly of a bent tube whose two branches, of 
unequal length, are straight or only slightly sinuous, so that on observing 
a side-view of the worm they appear to cross each other, whilst maintain - 
Fig. 11. — Lateral view of uterus and 
vagina. Magnification: 350 diameters. 
ing their order of superposition. In some instances one or two loops are 
noticeable. The longer tube is of an ovarian character till the latter third 
of the body, where a slight and short thickening of the walls signals the 
beginning of the ovijector. A similar thickening is present at the lower 
