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THE H^MATOZOA OF AUSTRALIAN REPTILIA. No.i. 



By T. Harvey Johnston, M. A., B.8c., and J. Burton Cleland, 



M.D., Ch.M. 



(From the Bureau of Microbiology, Sydney ) 



(Plate XX.) 



In connection with our systematic researches upon the h^ema- 

 tozoa of Australian vertebrates, we pi'opose to deal from time to 

 time with those met with in reptiles, this paper forming the 

 first part. We consider it advisable to begin our paper with 

 a list of Australian reptilia from which lisematozoa have been 

 already recorded. 



Ohelonia (Turtles, Tortoises, etc.). 



X.Chelodina obloiiga Gray — Hamogregarina clelandi Johnston,* 

 Perth, Western Australia. 



2.C'helodina longicoUis Shaw — Trypanosoina chelodina John- 

 sonjt South Australia. Hoimocystidium chelodhuH Johnston and 

 01 eland; I Sydney. 



Ophidia (Snakes). 



^.Python amethystiuus Schn. — Hcemogregariyia {Karyohjsus) 

 amethystiua Johnston.!^ 



* Johnston, T. H., "On some Haemogregaiines from Australian Reptiles." 

 Proe. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1909, xxxiv., pp.407-8. The host given was 

 C. oblonijaC?) and has since been identified by Mr. A. R. McCuUoch as 

 belonging to that species. 



tJohnson, E. A., Australasian Medical Gazette,l907,xxvi.,p.26. Summary 

 given in Johnston, I.e., pp. 408-9. 



J Johnston, T. H., and Cleland, J. B., "On a new Melanin-producing 

 Haematozoon from an Australian Tortoise." Journ. Proc, Roy. Soc. N. S, 

 Wales, 1909, xliii., pp.97-103. 



§ Johnston, T. H., " On a new Hcemoprotozoan." Rec. Austr. Museum, 

 vii., 1909, pp.257-9. 

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