NOTE ON TAPEWORMS IN PUNJAB CAMELS.

                                          BY

                  A. S. LEESE, M.R.C.V.S., C.V.D.,

                     Investigating Camel Diseases.

Two species of tapeworms have been found in the course
of post-mortem examinations made on camels suffering from
different diseases in the Punjab.

No. 1 is undoubtedly Tænia expansa. It was found in
one old camel on 28th September 1908 ; there were three or
four individual specimens in the duodenum. They were not
involved in any important degree in cause of death.

The worm was over 3 yards long, the older segments
being very thick and of a yellowish colour. The segments
were broader than they were long at every part. The head
was 0.8 mm. wide when lying slightly expanded on a glass
slide ; it was unarmed and the four suckers were oval and
had the slit-like opening of T. expansa. There was a short
neck and the young part of the worm is very attenuated.
The greatest breadth of mature segments was 13 mm. and
greatest length 2 mm.

Two genital pores in each segment.

No. 2 is apparently undescribed in text-books of Veterin-
ary Parasitology. It is a very delicate unarmed tapeworm,
length up to 3 feet. Head is about ½ mm. wide and the
width of the neck behind the head is ½ that of the head.
The segments are thin, easily torn, and always much broader
than long; the greatest length of mature segments was
0.3 mm. and the greatest breadth 2 to 3 mm.

The opaque double uterus of each segment being later-
ally situated, the worm is left transparent in the middle
line.