The writers describe the muscular texture of the proglottides of Taenia saginata, Goeze, 1782, based upon microscopical preparations of mature and gravid proglottides stained by several methods. The muscular system of the proglottides of Taenia saginata is disposed mainly in two layers, a longitudinal and external one, and a deeper transverse layer, lining the body parenchym and internal organs. A circular or annular layer ranging under the cuticle is also referred. The writers emphasize the peculiar texture of the smooth muscle fibres, which only excepcionally do exist as isolated fibres, anastomosis between the fibres being the common histological appearence. Special features of the body parenchym such as calcareous bodies and globous nuclea scattered in the parenchym are also described.

Os AA descrevem um caso de tumor (simpatogonioma) orginário da camada medular da glãndula suprarrenal esquerda, em natimorto a têrno, da sexo masculino de côr branca, medindo 48 cm. e pesando 3.200 g. As células do tumor. pelas suas características, são consideradas simpatogônicas, infiltrando também, a camada cortical, em algumas regiões. Não form encontrados focos metastáticos nos diferentes orgãos.

The authors describe a case of tumor (sumpathogonioma) originated form the medullar layer of the left adrenal gland in a stillborn of nine months. The tumor-cells are considered sympthononiae on account of their morphologic characteristics. Metastic foci were not foud in the different organs.

The authors give biological data and a histological study of infestation of Musca domestica LINNEU, 1758 by a Phycomycetes of the genus Empusa.

Among the material of the archives of the Pathological Section of the Oswaldo Cruz Institue (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) we found 9 cases of cancer metastasis in the spleen. Four of them were macroscopically apparent, but five had only been diagnosed microscopically. Of these cases of tumors, 3 are adenocarcinoma originated from the pancreas (cases 1, 3, 5,); 3 are primary carcinoma of stomach (cases 7,8 and 9); 1 adenocarcinoma of gall-bladder (case 2); 1 originated form the mammary gland (case 4) and finally 1 form the colon. (case 6.). The incidence of the metastasis observed in the spleen among the total of 6.400 studied autopsies is of 0,14%; The same incidence among those of epithelial blastomata is of 1,8%.