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Figure 6G.—Cepedea mogyana (Carini): a and 6, X 117; c, X 1010. 



CEPEDEA SPINIFEBA Metcalf 



Host: Oxydozyga lima (Tschudi). 



This Cepedea in this host has been reported from Java (Metcalf, 

 1923a). The present abundant infections in the same species of 

 host are from Baudon (U.S.N.M. No. 67244) and Lem Sing (U.S.N.M. 

 No. 67313), Siam. Two other specimens from Siam were uninfected. 



CEPEDEA LEMURIAE. new species 



Figure 67 



Type: U.S.N.M. No. 22637. 



Host: Polypedates rhodoscelis (Boulenger). 



A single specimen of this tree frog from Madagascar (U.S.N.M. 

 No. 60658), 38 mm. long, a female with eggs, is abundantly infected 

 with rather large Cepedeas, which, as in C. dimidiata, show small, 

 slender individuals and also very much swollen larger individuals. 

 These all have small nuclei. The individual marked x in the figure 

 shows an irregularity of contour, indicating probably a thin pellicle 

 and soft, flabby body. Such individuals are rather numerous in the 

 infection, as they are in infections of C. multijormis (tropical America), 

 C. seychellensis (Seychelles Islands), C. hispanica (Spain), C. minor 

 (France), and some others. This species has a combination of 

 characters not seen in any other Cepedea described and is named as a 

 distinct species, after the former Indian Ocean continent of which 

 Madagascar is reputed to have been a portion. 



