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Genus Joenia Grassi. Ellipsoidal; anterior portion capable of 

 forming pseudopodia; flagellar tufts in part directed posteriorly; 

 surface covered by numerous immobile short filamentous process- 

 es, which some hold to be symbiotic bacteria; nucleus spherical 



Fig. 130. a-e, Lopho7nonas blattarum (a, b, in life, X320; c, d, stained 

 specimens; e, cyst, X1150) (Kudo); f-h, L. striata (f, in life, X320; 

 g, h, stained individuals, X1150) (Kudo); i, Prolophomonas tocopola, 

 X1200 (Cleveland et al.); j, Joenia annectens (Grassi and Foa) ; k, Mi- 

 crojoenia pyriformis, X 920 (Brown); 1, Torquenympha octoplus, x920 

 (Brown). 



anterior; posterior to it a conspicuous axostyle composed of 

 numerous axial filaments, a parabasal apparatus surrounding it; 

 bits of wood used as food; in termite gut. 



J. annectens G. (Fig. 130, j)- Ii^ Kalotermes flavicollis. 



Genus Joenina Grassi. More complex in structure than that of 



