. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology. Parasites. n8 The length of the fluke is: — Sublimate specimens (6) Formalin 10% specimens (6) Alcohol 70 % specimens (6) average 3*6 , maximum 5*5, minimum 2*75 1, 5-2 11 11 575> »» 4-75 » 3'96 » 11 4-6, „ 3*5 The body is uniformly spinose, though, as a rule, spines are not present on the pedicle. In preserved specimens the body is slightly concavo-convex, the concavity being ventral. Alimentary canal. The mouth is directed ventrally. The diameter of the oral sucker is 0*28 mm. The pharynx measures 0*224 D>' 0*184 mm., and is followed
. Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology. Parasites. n8 The length of the fluke is: — Sublimate specimens (6) Formalin 10% specimens (6) Alcohol 70 % specimens (6) average 3*6 , maximum 5*5, minimum 2*75 1, 5-2 11 11 575> »» 4-75 » 3'96 » 11 4-6, „ 3*5 The body is uniformly spinose, though, as a rule, spines are not present on the pedicle. In preserved specimens the body is slightly concavo-convex, the concavity being ventral. Alimentary canal. The mouth is directed ventrally. The diameter of the oral sucker is 0*28 mm. The pharynx measures 0*224 D>' 0*184 mm., and is followed by a narrow oesophagus 004 mm. long. The ventral sucker is 0176 mm. in diameter. Oral sucker. B& mm C. X S 00 —* J) X300. (Esophagus. Termination of genital tube with ova escaping. Ventral sucker, protruded. Alimentary canal, right side. Uterine tube filled with ova. Hairs, still adherent. Vitelbgene^ glands, right side. Right vittllogene duct. Ovary. Right testicle. Tennmfttion of right alimentary tube. Pulsatile veBicle, near termination of water-vascular system ~X IS • fig- 3, DlSTOMA FOUND IN THE BILE DUCTS OF DOGS. A—The parasite figured natural size. B.—Ditto magnified 15 diameters. C.— Minute hairs covering the entire body when fresh and before being manipulated, magnified 300 diameters. squeezed out of the uterine lube, magnified 300 diameters Vitellaria. Consist of eight acini on each side, extending from slightly behind the base of the pedicle to the anterior border of the ovary or as far back as a line separating the posterior border of the ovary from the anterior border of the anterior testis. The arrangement of the acini is very constant, and in the examples I have examined I have found no appreciable variation. Inwardly Note.—The figure on this page is a reproduction of Lewis and Cunningham's original figure (vide literature p. 123).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been d
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