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formed in the muscles or skin. The infection can be recognized by the 

 presence of the numerous spores in the teased-out tissues. In sections it 



Fig. 312. — Diagram of Life-Cycle of Nosema homhycis in Intestinal 

 Epithelium of Silkworm (xc«. 3,000). (After Stempell, 1909.) 



can be seen that the infected cells of the intestine or other tissues are 

 hypertrophied and filled with numerous minute, rounded, or amoeboid 



