BOTHRIOCEPHALUS

(Lat.),n.m. Both 0(0?)-sef(ke?f)’- a*l(a?l)-u2s(uts). Fr., bothriocéphale. Ger., Grubenkopfwurm. It. botriocefalo. Sp.. botriocéfalo. Syn.: Phytelminthus [Zeder], Phytis [Zeder], Alyselminthus [Zeder], Halysis [Zeder], Bothryocephalus [Cuvier], Botryocephalus [Lamarck], Dibothrium [Diesing], Tetra bothrium. A genus originally made to include all tapeworms having suctorial grooves on the head; of Rudolphi, a genus of the Both rio cep halidæ having a hookle head distinctly marked off from a long segmented body; the cirrus and vagina usually opening on the ventral surface of the joint, rarely at the margin; and the uterus lying in the middle of the segment, in the form of a coiled canal often rosette-shaped, In the larval state the body is more or le long and ribbon-shaped. [L, 182.|—B. cord at us [Leuckart]. A species found in Green land; shorter and more comare than B. lat us and differing in the shape of the head, which ort, broad, and cordiform with lateral projecting borders. es 16, 182.]—B, eristatus [Davaine]. A doubtful variety occasionally Lit., a saumet with in man; from 8 to 10 feet long, characterized by two prominences which form a crest covered by numerons minute paill. [L, 24.]—B. lat us [Bremser]. Fr., othriocéphale large (ou de homme), toe. nia à anneaux courts [Bonnet] (ou à mamelons ombilicaux [Bonnet], ou de la emiere ce [Andry], ou sans épine faa. Ger., breiter Grubenkopfwurm. t., botriocefalo largo (0 delluomo). Syn.: Tenia vulgar is [Linnæns] (sen lat a, seu grise a [Pallas], seu membranacea [Pallas], seu tenella [Pallas], seu dentata |Pabst}, seu human a inerm is [Brera], seu prima [Plater], seu teterum [Spigel]), Halysis ta (seu membranacea) (Zeder], Botryocephalus hominis [Lamarck], Dit thrium Proglottides x 234. THE BOTHRIOCEPHALUS LATUS. (AFTER PEYER.) latum [Diesing]. The Swi tapeworm; a species sometimes attaining a length of 25 feet and a breadth of nearly an inch, and havin; as many as 4,000 joints. The head has no hooks, but two later a grooves, by means of which the worm attaches itself to the intestine. It is bluish-white, and is most commonly found in Switzerland and neighboring countries, rarely out of Europe. Its larval form probably exists in es. | sold B. liguloides [Leuckart]. Syn.: Ligula Mansoni [Cobbold]. A variety the larval form of which has been found in the sub peritoneal connective ti ue of man in China and Japan. It may attain a length of 8 inches; posteriorly it is narrowed, and anteriorly it is widened for a short distance into a sort of disc. The head is somewhat compre ed and usually more or le invaginated, and lies on a papilliform elevation in the middle of the anterior end. Both surfaces of the body are alike. [L, 182.]—B. tropic us. Fr., tenia des tropiques. variety of cestode found by Schmidtmiiller in negroes and whites who had been in Guinea, {L, 17.]