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Ladies and Gentlemeu, I must conclude. My great disadvantage 

 comes from the fact that I am speaking a language that is not mine. 

 But I know that you will pardon my mistakes. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you the hearty salutations of the 

 Nation, your oldest Ally, that since the first moment, when all was 

 obscure and doubtful in the horizon, sided with you firmly decided to 

 triumph or die with you. I bring you particularly the hearty greetings 

 of the Portuguese Scientists and my personal feelings could be well 

 expressed by the words of the Indian Poet : — 



" / was a foreigner and you have received me as a brother." And to 

 reply to this courtesy I will now repeat the wordi^ of the great Shakes- 

 speare. 



" / speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts 

 it to utterance." 



We are much indebted to Captain Froilano de Mello for his interest- ^- Fletcher, 

 ing lecture and we all appreciate and reciprocate the complimentary 

 allusions with which he has concluded. 



It may be considered by some that the study of Protozoa, such as 

 the Trichonymphid parasites of Termites, comes rather outside the 

 scope of Entomology but in my opening Address at the beginning of 

 this Meeting I pointed out how the study of such parasites may throw 

 some light on the evolutionary history of the Termites themselves, and 

 from this point of view we may take a just interest in such studies. 

 This paper is important as being the first attempt to study these para- 

 sites in India, and I can only hope that it will lead to further researches 

 along a most interesting line of work. 



Explanations of the Plates illustrating Captain Froilano de Mello s paper 

 on the Trichonymphid parasites of some Indian Termites. ^ 



PLATE 168. 

 1 — 4. Trkliunijiiiyiha nijiUs, different forms. 

 5. 2'. ngilix, viewed anteriorlj'. 

 0. T. (Ujilis, division process. 

 7—15. T. agilis (after Leidy, Jmrn. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philud. (2) VIII, t. 5), ft. 1—9) 



16. T. agilis (after Leidy). 



17. T. agilis (after Lankester, copied from Leidy). 



18. T. agilis (after Grassi and Sandias, Coal. Soc. Termitiili, t. .5, f. 1), 



19 — 30. The so-called young forms of T. agilis (after Leidy, I.e. t. 51, ff. 11 22), 



PLATE 169. 

 31 — 33. Ijtiihjn melschnikowi. 

 34 — 36. Lcidi/d annandalei. 

 37 — 38. Leidya kempt. 



