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The specimen is probably filaria striata (Molin) . The 
uncertainty of diagnosing filarice may be appreciated 
when MoHn is quoted from his comprehensive mono- 
graph that he could not diagnose some of the cases be- 
cause they had no outspoken characteristics. This 
uncertainty is increased by the brevity of the type 
descriptions. Filaria striata is described as follows: 
Os inerme, minimum; corpus filiforme, longissimum, 
tenuissime transversim stratum; extremitas anterior crassior; 
et posterior ohtusce; extremitas caudalis maris laxe spiraliter 
torta, foveala ante apicem limbo cincta, septem papillis 
permagnis utrinque prcedita; vagina breve tubulosa; penis 
hrevissimus uncinatus; extremitas caudalis femine inflexa. 
Longit. mar. crassit. Y" . Longit. fem. 1' 3"; 
crassit 
This worm could easily have been the cause of death 
in this one animal. The blood swarmed with the embryos, 
and we know that analogous infestations in man cause 
severe and fatal anaemias in most filariases. The disease 
is transmitted by the bites of insects. We know that 
Filaria imitis of the dog is transmitted by the mosquito 
common to this climate, culex pipiens. It is probable 
that here, too, a mosquito is the intermediate host be- 
tween the wild cats. 
This animal also presented intestinal and pulmonary 
worms. The pulmonary worms were identified as 
Paragonimus westermanii by Dr. Allen J. Smith and re- 
ported before the Philadelphia Pathological Society, 
January 25th, 1912. He considered it valuable evidence 
that the disease is here on the Atlantic seaboard and may 
be transmitted to man, just as it is transmitted to-day to 
a goodly percentage of Japanese. 
The intestinal worms comprised an unidentified ascaris, 
probably ascaris mystax, and three species of tapeworms. 
One specie has been found to be Bothriocephalus felis 
(Creplin). There were fully a dozen of these worms 
present. Specimens have been prepared for museum. 
The bothriocephalus of man is the one genus of tapeworm 
which produces a frank, profound anaemia of pernicious 
