HYPERMASTIGINA 



405 



Flagella not arranged in tufts 



Posterior part without flagella 



Family 6 Trichonymphidae (p. 412) 



Flagella over entire body.. .Family 7 Eucomonymphidae (p. 414) 

 Body with segmented appearance. .Family 8 Teratonymphidae (p. 414) 



Family 1 Holomastigotidae Janicki 



Genus Holomastigotes Grassi. Body small; spindle-shaped; few 

 spiral rows reach from anterior to posterior end; nucleus anterior, 

 surrounded by a mass of dense cytoplasm; saprozoic; in the termite 

 gut. 



H. elongatum G. (Fig. 171, a). In gut of Reticulitermes lucifugus, 

 R. speratus, R. flaviceps, and Macrohodotermes massambicus; up to 

 70/x by 24m (Grassi, 1892). 



Fig. 171. a, Holomastigotes elongatum, X700 (Koidzumi); b, Holo- 

 mastigotoides hartmanni, X250 (Koidzumi); c, Spirotrichonympha leidyi, 

 X400 (Koidzumi); d, S. pulchella, X900 (Brown); e, Microspirotricho- 

 nympha porteri, X250 (Koidzumi); f, M. ovalis, X600 (Brown); g, Macro- 

 spironympha xylopletha, X300 (Cleveland et al.); h, Leptospironympha 

 eupora, X1050 (Cleveland et al.). 



