| (Institute of Tropical Medicine and Laboratory of Comparative Pathology and Parasitology of Leyden.) Four females 2) were collected by J. C. Wäkerlin in 1909 under the skin of a Cercopithecus brazzae, which died in the zoological garden of Rotterdam. The monkey originated from the Mid-Congo in Africa. Three of these worms were available for study, the caudal part of the fourth of them being wanting. The examined worms (I, II and III) are 49, 59 and 60 mm. in length. The head-end, which has no papillae, in the 59 mm. long female is slightly swollen; near the end of the oesophagus it measures 720 µ in breadth, while the rest of the body is 510 µ broad, except the body-end, which tapers to the tail, where it is 260 µ broad in the vicinity of the anus. The... |
