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form recepticulum seminis, which is larger than the ovary; 
vitellogene glands composed of numerous acini, and extend 
from about the posterior end of the oesophagus to about the 
middle of the body. Genital opening anterior to the acetabulum, 
cirrus not to be seen ; excretory pore on posterior end. Eggs 
0.027-0.032 long by 0.013-0.016 mm. broad. Color of worm 
white, with brown spot (uterus). 
Host.—C ats. 
Geographical Distribution. —Konigsberg, Germany 
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(Braun) ; Alfort, France (Raillet). I can add here that Dr. 
Theobald Smith has found some flukes in cats in Albany, N. Y., 
which I had identified as “ D. conus (?),” but which are evidently 
identical with Braun’s new species. 
3. Distoma felineum Riv., 1884. 
1831. Distomum conus Gurlt, found by Rudolphi in liver 
of the cat. 
Dictomum lanceolatum Crepl. (pp.) found by v. Siebold (1836) 
in liver of a cat at Danzig ; by van Tright (1885) in liver 
of a dog at Utrecht. 
1884. Distonia filineum Riv., liver of a cat and dog in Italy; 
by de Jong in Utrecht ; by Braun in cat, Konigsberg. 
1889. Distomum conus Sonsino, in dog and cat, Italy. 
1892. Distoma truncatum Rail.—Neumann (fig. 234, Neu¬ 
mann’s Parasites). 
Specific Diagnosis. —Body 10-13 (seldom 18) mm. long 
by 1.25-2.5 mm. broad; flat, anterior end conical, posterior end 
rouoded ; the anterior fifth of body separated from the remainder 
by a conscriction ; acetabulum situated at plane of constriction. 
Color reddish, transparent ; oral sucker and ventral acetabulum 
of same size (0.28 mm. diameter) ; oesophagus (0.204 mm. long 
by 0.161 mm. broad) follows oral sucker; oesophagus 0.2 mm. 
long ; intestinal caeca exteod into the posterior end of the body. 
Testicles lobulate, situated in posterior end ; ovary slightly lobu- 
late, anterior of testicles ; receptaculum seminis dextrad and 
posterior to ovary ; vitellogene glands lateral in middle third of 
