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Unpublished Case of Bowditch. — In my host catalogue of para- 
sites I have the following entry: "Gordius trifurcatus-varius^ deter- 
mined b}" % , collected b}" Doctor Bowditch. host Homo^ 
location % , locality Saco, Maine, U. S. A., Cat. no. Ill 
Boston Soc. Xat. Hist.’’ .1 have been unable to obtain any further 
details regarding’ this case. 
New Case. — In Februarv. 1902. Dr. AV. G. MacCallum, of Johns 
Hopkins Hospital, forwarded to me for determination two worms 
which he had received from Dr. W. J. Stevenson, London, Ontario. 
The label stated that these specimens were passed in large quantities 
from the intestine of a girl 13 years old. Examination showed them 
to be Paragordius varius. 
In a personal letter to me Doctor Stevenson states that the child 
exhibited no special symptoms. The worms were passed while the 
girl was sitting on a chamber, and the mother noticed them immedi- 
ately. They seemed as stiff as wire, a fact which might give rise to 
the suspicion that they were dried and were in the chamber before the 
girl used it. One week later similar worms were again passed. The 
mother thought that the child had worms, because of her picking her 
nose and crying out during sleep. The child was accustomed to eating 
a great many apples. Ao further details are accessible to me. 
Xew Case. — U. S. P. H. & M. H. S. specimen no. 9565 represents 
one male and one female specimen of Paragordius rarius^ forwarded 
to me by Dr. Joseph L. Miller, of Chicago, Ilk, for determination. 
Doctor Miller wrote : 
I send you under separate cover a specimen which was given to me recently by a 
physician who reported that a patient had vomited it. 
Ao further data regarding this case could be obtained. 
Species PARAGORDIUS TRICUSPIDATUS (Dufour, 1828') Camerano, 1897. 
bS28: Filaria tricuspidata Dufour, 1828d, 222-224, pi. 12c (in Gryllus burdigalensis; 
France) . 
1856: Gordius tricusp idatus (Dufour, 1828) Meissner, 1856, 55. 
1897: Faragordius tricuspidatus (Dufour, 1828) Camerano, 1897g, 399, 400. 
The following case of parasitism has been ascribed to this species. 
Case of R. Blaxchaed, 1897d. — Locality: Bassac (Charente), France. On May 1 
a boy 15 years old, not in the habit of drinking wine, had just taken a full glass, 
when a few moments later he felt in his throat a peculiar tickling, similar to that 
occasioned by the presence of a hair. He inserted his fingers and encountered a 
sort of a thread, which he drew out. About 15 days before this occurrence the boy 
had taken a drink of water from a small brook; since then he had experienced a 
slight colic which disappeared after the expulsion of the worm. This worm was 
sent by Doctor Boiteau to Paris and was determined by Blanchard as Gordius 
tricuspidatus. 
