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L. SCYLLICOLA. 
Part III. 
Abnormal Growths. During the spring months of 1918, I observed upon 
L. scyllicola various abnormal spherical growths in different situations upon 
the cephalothorax, and the anterior portion of the trunk, notably the shoulder 
(Fig. 5). Under the low power of the microscope fine threads were seen 
Fig. 5. L. scyllicola , some abnormal growths: A. on the shoulder; B. on the cephalothorax; 
C. normal outline. 
Fig. 6. Some abnormal growths or tumours under a high magnification. A. L. mustclicola ; 
B. L. scyllicola (a microscopic enlargement of Fig. 5 a.). T. tumour; m. muscle; B'2Mx. base 
of the second maxilla. 
protruding from these growths. Upon the base of one of the second maxillae, 
and somewhat between them, of one of the specimens of L. mustelicola 
previously described (vide ante) a similar growth is present, in which the 
projecting threads are much-stouter and straighter (Fig. 6 a). In a permanently 
mounted eosin-stained preparation under a Jth-inch objective these growths 
resolve themselves into a solid mass of tissue embedded among the round 
