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free flagellum at the posterior end (Fig. 98). Such forms may be 

 readily conceived as coming from bodo-like types in which the pos- 

 terior or trailer flagellum becomes attached to the cell, while the 

 trypanosome type may arise from such forms by the suppression of the 



FIG. 98 



C 



Trypanoplasma borreli. (After Keysselitz.) A, B, old, developmental stages; C, a so-called 

 "male" form; D, E, so-called "female" forms; G, H, the "copula." 



