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TheEyeDistome— AGAMODISTOMUM OPHTHALMOBIUMa (Diesing, 1850) 
Stossich, 1892 — of Man. 
[Figs. 1 to 4.] 
Specific diagnosis. — Agamodisioynum: Body ovate-lanceolate, variable, one-fourth 
to one-half line long, one-sixth of a line broad. Month terminal to subterminal, 
orbicular. Acetabulum one-third larger than oral sucker, subcentral, with circular 
aperture. 
Habitat. — Between crystalline lens and its capsule, in eye of man [Homo sapiens), 
in Dresden. 
^Synonyms. — ‘‘Distomen” Ammon, 1833; Distoma oculi /mmcmi Gescheidt, 1833; 
Distomum ophthalmohium Diesing, 1850; Distoma ophthahnobium (Diesing, 1850) 
Kiichenmeister, 1855; Dicrocoelium oculi hiimani (Gescheidt, 1833) Weinland, 1858; 
“Distoma ocular e Nordmann” of Moquin-Tandon, I860; Fasciola, ocularis Moquin- 
Tandon, 1860; Fasciola oculis Moquin-Tandon, 1861; Distoma ocular de Bonis, 1882; 
Agamodistomum ophthalmohium (Diesing, 1850) Stossich, 1892; ‘I Dicrocoelium lanceatum 
Stiles & Hassall, 1896 [see p. 29]; “Distom. okuli humani Ammon” of Schneidemiihl, 
1896. 
