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THE SPOROZOA 



Genus 11. Minchinia, Labbe', 1896. The dizoic spores are oval, the 

 sporocysts produced at each pole into two long filaments (Fig. 66, a). 



Type-species, M. chitonis (E. R. L.), discovered by Lankester in the liver 

 of Chiton. Allied species, not named, occur in a similar situation in 

 Patella, and Trochus (Labbe".) By Schaudinn this genus is united with 

 Adelea. 



FIG. 64. 



Sporogony and spore-germination in Barrmissia ornata, A. Schn., 

 from the gut of A'epa cinerea. a, oocyst with sporoblasts. 6, 

 oocyst with ripe spores, c, a spore highly magnified, showing the 

 single sporozoite bent on itself, d, the spore has split along 

 its outer coat or epispore, but the sporozoite is still enclosed in 

 the endospore. e, the sporozoite, freed from the endospore, is 

 emerging. /, the sporozoite has straightened itself out and is 

 freed from its envelopes. From Wasielewski, after A. Schneider. 



Genus 12. " Benedenia," A. Schn., 1875 (Legeria, Blanchard, 1900 ; 

 Eucoccidium, Liihe, 1902). The spherical spores are trizoic. No 

 schizogony. 



Type-species, " B. " eberthi (Labbe"), from the epithelium of the gut and 

 other organs of Sepia l (Fig. 58). 



1 The correct name of this species, commonly cited as Benedenia octopiana, A. 

 Schn., is far from being settled. In the first place, as regards the generic name, 



