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P. tocopola C. et al. (Fig. 173, i). 14-19/i by 12-15/*; in Cr?/pto- 

 cercus punctidatus. 



Genus Joenia Grassi. Ellipsoidal; anterior portion capable of 

 forming pseudopodia; flagellar tufts in part directed posteriorly; 

 surface covered by numerous immobile short filamentous processes, 



Fig. 173. a-e, Lophomonas blattarum (a, b, in life, X320; c, a stained 

 specimen; d, a trophozoite in which the nucleus is dividing; e, a stained 

 cyst, X1150) (Kudo); f-h, L. striata (f, in life, X320; g, a stained divid- 

 ing individual; h, a stained cyst, XI 150) (Kudo); i, Prolophomonas toco- 

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

 Microjoenia pyriformis, X920 (Brown); 1, Torquenympha octophis, X920 

 (Brown). 



nucleus spherical, anterior; posterior to it a conspicuous axostyle 

 composed of numerous axial filaments, a parabasal apparatus sur- 

 rounding it; xylophagous; in termite gut (Grassi, 1885). 



J. annectens G. (Figs. 172, /; 173, j). In Kalotermes flavicollis. 

 Parabasal apparatus (Duboscq and Grasse, 1928a). 



