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and in figs. 27-29 he represents the scolex with converging rounded 
edges towards the front ; the protruding angles at the front edge, 
so characteristic in Tetrabothrium auriculatum , are quite absent, so 
that a relationship cannot be assumed. 
I must therefore reject all Fuhrmann’s criticisms as completely 
unfounded and superfluous. 
