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PARASITES OF PROTOZOA 



Fusijowiis-Uke Rods Adherent Full Length.— The genus Fusijormis 

 has the type species F. termitidh HoelHng, 1910. This organism is gen- 

 erally free in the lumen of the hind-gut of termites. It was originally 

 reported in Coptotevmes sp. of Brazil, has been observed by the writer 



Figure 208. Fusiformis-like rods adherent to the surface of flagellates. A, B, Fusifomiis 

 grandis and F. melolonthae on Polytnastix melolonthae ; C, F. tnelolonthae on P. 

 melolonthae ; D, F. legeri on P. legeri ; E, F. lophomonadis on Lophomonas striata: 

 F-J, rod-shaped microorganisms on Devescovina sp. from Neotermes dalbergiae. (A-E, 

 after Grasse, one 926b; F-J, original.) 



in C. niger of Panama, and was found by Duboscq and Grasse (1926, 

 1927) in Glyptoternies iridipennis, where it occasionally adheres to 

 "Devescovina" hilli. Chromatic granules number from one to sixteen, 

 according to Hoelling's account; Hoelling identified these with nuclei. 

 In the form studied by the writer in C. niger, the chromatic granules 

 are well defined, usually extend the full width of the cell, and in most 



