443 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Possible Entrance of 14. Pseudocolapsis splendidula. P. Isete seneo-cuprea, grosse sed breviter argenteo pubescens, dense punctata ; antennis longiusculis, rufescentibus, apicem versus plus minus obscurioribus ; pedibus rufesceutibus. Long. corp. lin. l|-2. Habitat in Canaria, Palma et Hierro, ad flores Cistorum in locis inferioribus et subinferioribus degens. Fam. UlomidaB. Genus Hypophlceus. Fabricius, Skrivt. af Nat. Selsk. (1790). 15. HypophloBus nocivus. H. subcylindrico-linearis, rufo-ferrugineus, parum nitidus ; capita prothoraceque sat dense punctulatis, hoc convexo elongato-sub-quadrato, antice et postice sequaliter (sed vix) angustiore ; oculis magnis, obliquis, nigris ; elytris parallelis, parcius leviusque punc-tulatis, obsoletissime (vix perspicue) substriatis, ad apicera trun-catis, pygidium baud tegentibus ; antennis brevissimis, crassis, fusiforrnibus ; pedibus rufo-testaceis. Long. Corp. lin. l|~lf . Habitat in pinetis TenerifFse et Palmae, arbores emortuas antiquas perforans. XL VII. — Notes on the Possibility of the Embryos of the Guinea-Worm and so-called " Fungus-Disease " of India, resjjectively , entering the Human Body through the Sudorific Ducts. By H. J. Carter, F.R.S.* In my " Observations on Dracunculus," published in the 4th Number of the ' Transactions ' of the Society (New Series) f, I have stated, at page 217, that the young Filaridse of the free species, which abound in the Island of Bombay during the " rains,^^ and throughout the year in most of the tanks, " might pass into the human body through the skin direct, or indirectly through the ducts of the sudorific glands, the latter being much larger in calibre (viz. l-1200th of an inch) than these young Filaridse,'^ — assuming that Dracunculus, when fully developed in the human body, is a monster-growth of a worm whose natural habitat is out of the body, that the young ones which it then brings forth are too delicate to maintain an independent existence, and thus unable to propagate the species, and that, therefore, the Guinea-worm is introduced. No case, however, has yet occurred where a young Filaria of * Communicated by the author, having been read in part before the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay on the 5th of October, 1861. t Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3. vol. iv. pp. 28, 98.
XLVII.—Notes on the possibility of the embryos of the Guinea-worm and so-called "Fungus-Disease" of India, respectively, entering the human body through the sudorific ducts
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