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As an entozoologist and correspondent of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, I request permission to correct an error recorded in the report of the Academy as given in your columns (at p. 500) this week. Dr. Leidy is represented as having stated that “the minute acetabular pit or fovea at the summit of the head [of Tænia mediocanellata] is not mentioned by Kuchenmeister and subsequent observers asa character of that species.” I beg to remark that I both figured and described this supplementary sucker-like structure in the first edition of my small work on “Tapeworms,” published in 1866 (p. 33 et seq.). At least two other observers have figured and described this central depression, not only in the adult but also in the measle or cysticercal stage of the worm. Even Bremser recognised it, but his description was for a time overlooked.
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COBBOLD, T. The Beef Tapeworm. Nature 4, 506 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004506a0
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