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PROTOZOOLOGY 



Fig. 238. a, Amphileptiis claparedei, X370 (Roux); b, A. branchi- 

 arum, flattened, X490 (Wenrich); c, Lionotus fasciola, X540(Kahl); 

 d, Loxophylluyn meleagris, Xl20 (Penard); e, L. setigerum, X570 

 (Sauerbrey); f, Bryophylluvi vorax, X360 (Stokes); g, h, Kentrophoros 

 fasciolatum [g, X50; h, XllO) (Noland). 



Genus Loxophyllum Dujardin {Opisthodon Stein). Generally 

 similar to Lionotus in appearance; but ventral side with a hya- 

 line border, reaching posterior end and bearing trichocysts ; dorsal 

 side with either similar trichocyst-border or with trichocyst- 

 warts; maeronueleus a single mass or in many parts; contractile 

 vacuoles, 1 to many; fresh or salt water. Many species. 



L. meleagris (D.) (Fig. 238, d). Form and size highly variable; 

 flask-shape to broad leaf -like; broad ventral seam with tricho- 



