78 G. C. ChaTTERJEE : A Sporozoon from the cow. [VOL. I, 1907.] 



infection in the muscle of a man and is of the opinion that the parasite 

 was S, tcndla. Von lyinstow (C) has described a form {Balhiana 

 {Sarcocystis) siamcnsis) from the tongue of a buffalo in Lower Siam, 

 and Shipley (D) has figured this form. Shipley (B) has also des- 

 cribed another form from the muscle of a cow in Ceylon, regarding 

 it as identical with 5. tenella. Wille}^ Chalmers and Phillip (F) 

 report frequently infection in the voluntary muscles of buffaloes 

 which are apparently healthy. They found the parasite in 5" 8 

 per cent, of the individuals slaughtered in Colombo. 



Regarding the classification and nomenclature of the Sarco- 

 sporidia found in dift'erent animals, there is a great deal of confusion, 

 as an illustration of which I cannot do better than quote Minchin's 

 remarks {op. cit., p. 308) on the subject. " Sarcocystis, Ray Lan- 

 kester, 1882," he says, " represents the characters of the order. 

 A great number of forms have been seen in different animals, many 

 of which are probably distinct species, but only a few have received 

 specific designation : such are 5. miescheriana (Kiihn) from the pig ; 

 5. tenella, Raillet, from the sheep ; S. platydactyli, Bertram, from 

 the gecko ; 5. muris, Blanchard, from the mouse, etc." 



21st February, 1907. 



LITERATURE. 



A. Minchin on the Sporozoa in Lankester's Treatise on Zoology, 



part i, fasc. ii, 1903. 



B. Vuillemin, Compt. Rend, de I'Acad. des. Sci. Paris, cxxxiv. 



No. 20, p. 1132, noted in Baumgarten's Jahreshericht for 



^905- 



C. Von lyinstow, " Parasiten, meisten Helminthes, aus Siam," 



Archiv. f. Micr. Anat., Bel. Ixxii, 1903. 



D. Shipley, on the Ento-parasites collected by the Skeat Expe- 



dition in the year 1899-1900, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1903 (2). 



E. Idem, "Some Parasites from Ceylon," Spolia Zeylanica, vol. 



i, 1903- 



F. Willey, Chalmers and Phillip, " Report on parasites in the 



carcases of buffaloes at the Colombo Slaughter-house/' 

 Spolia Zeylanica, vol. ii, 1905. 



