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The Fat Tapeworm — T^NIA SAGINATA « Gceze, 1782. 
[Figs. 28 to 34.] 
Specific diagnosis. — Txnia ( Txniarhynehus ) (p. 26): Strobila attains 4 to 8 or 10 
meters in length, greatest breadth 12 to 14 mm.; composed of about 1,300 segments. 
Head rather cuboid, 1.5 mm. to 2 mm. 
in diameter; rostellum very rudimentary, 
replaced by apical sucker-like structure 
0.114 111m. in diameter; suckers 0.7 to 0.8 
mm. in diameter, lumen 0.47 mm. Un- 
segmented neck present. Genital pore 
back of middle of lateral margin, genital 
cloaca 0.22 mm. deep, funnel-shaped. 
Sexually mature proglottids measure 4 to 
6 mm. long, 8 to 10 mm. broad; vagina 
with or without setae; ovary divided into 
two round lobes which lie distally of a 
transverse plane passing through genital 
pore; testicles 0.15 mm. in diameter; 
seminal vesicle absent; length of cirrus 
pouch 0.4 to 0.5 mm. Gravid (terminal) 
proglottids attain 12 to 20, rarely 25 mm. 
long, by 4 to 6.5 mm. broad; uterus with 
15 to 35 dichotomous branches each side 
of and shorter than median stem. Cal- 
careous corpuscles plentiful, attain 18 ju. 
Eggs globular, outer eggshell bears one 
or two filaments; embryophore thick, oval, transparent to dark brown, 30 to 40 ju 
long, 20 to 30 p broad. 
Fig. 2S. — Section of a beef tongue heavily in- 
fested with beef measles, natural size. (After 
Stiles. 189Sa, 72. fig. 6S.) 
a Synonyms. — Txnia solium Linnaeus, 1758a, pro parte; T. cucurbitina Pallas, 1766, 
pro parte; T. cucurbitina sagincita Goeze, 1782a; T. cucurbitina grandis saginata Goeze, 
1782a; ?T. vulgaris Werner, 1782 (not Linnaeus, 1758a), renamed T. dentata Batsch, 
1786a (not Xicolai, 1830); IT. solitaria Leske, 17S4 or 1785, pro parte ( not accessible); 
T. grandis Gmelin, 1790a; Halysis solium (Linnaeus, 1758) Zeder, 1803a, pro parte; 
Pentastoma coarctata Yirey, 1823; Txnia dentata Xicolai, 1830; ?T. fenestrata delle 
Chiaje, 1833a; T. lata Pruner, 1847 (not Linnaeus, 1758a); T. tenella Pruner, 1847 (not 
Pallas, 1781); Bothriocephalus tropicus Schmidtmueller, 1847; Txnia mediocanellata 
Kuechenmeister, 1852f; T. mediocanellata hominis Kuechenmeister, 1852f; T. zitta- 
viensis Kuechenmeister, 1852f; T. solium mediocanellata of Diesing, 1854b; T. [ Taenia - 
rhynchus~\ mediocanellata Kuechenmeister of Weinland, 1858; T. solium abietina We in- 
land, 1858; T. inermis Moquin-Tandon, 1860, and Laboulbene, 1876 (not Brera, 
1803a); T. tropica (Schmidtmueller, 1847), Aloquin-Tandon, 1860; “T. mediocancel- 
lata of several authors,” Aloquin-Tandon, 1860; T. capensis Aloquin-Tandon, 1860; 
Txniarhynehus mediocanellatus (Kuechenmeister, 1852) Weinland, 1861; Txnia mega- 
loon Weinland, 1861; T. [(Cystotxnia)~\ mediocanellata of Leuckart, 1863; T. lophosoma 
Cobbold, 1866; T. saginata Gceze, 1782, of Leuckart, 1867; T. abietina Weinland, 1858, 
of Davaine, 1873a; ? T. fusa Colin, 1876a; ?jT. continua Colin, lS76a; IT. solium fusa 
Colin, 1876a; °.T. solium continua Colin, 1876a; T. nigra Davaine, 1877a; T. algerien 
Redon, 1883; Tenia abietina (Weinland, 1858) Guzzardi Asmundo, 1885a; T. medio- 
canellata (Kuechenmeister) Guzzardi Asmundo, 1885a; Txnia mummificata Guzzardi 
Asmundo, 1885a; Tenia cosidetta mummificata Guzzardi Asmundo, 1885a; Txnia sagi- 
nata abietina Weinland of Leuckart (Hoyle), 1886; Tenia seghettata Bergonzini, 1886a; 
