152 ILLINOIS BIOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS [362 



STICTOSPORA PROVINCIALIS Leger 



[Figures 90, 91] 



1893 Stictospora provincialis Leger 1893 :129-31 



1896 Stictospora provincialis Leger 1896 :32 



1899 Stictospora proviticialis Labbe 1899:21 



Stictospora: Sporonts, solitary, elongate: Length 1000 to 2000/*. 

 Width not given. Ratio length protomerite : total length : : 1 : 6. 

 "Width protomerite : width deutomerite : : 1 : 1.2. Protomerite subglo- 

 bular, terminating in a broadly conical anterior extremity. Width equal 

 to height. Deep constriction at septum. Deutomerite widest at shoul- 

 der, tapering to a slender, sharply pointed distal portion. Nucleus el- 

 lipsoidal, with several karyosomes, epimerite consists of a short stalked, 

 globular papilla depressed anteriorly, there proceeding from the de- 

 pression a dozen long, backwardly directed, sharply pointed processes 

 which fit closely around the papilla and completely cover it. Proto- 

 plasm of anterior end of protomerite yellow. 



Cysts spherical, 800/* in diameter, dehiscence by simple rupture; 

 spores biconical, slightly curved. 



Taken near Marseilles, France. Hosts: Larvae of Melolontha sp. 

 and Bhizotrogus sp. Habitat : Intestine. 



But one species is known in this genus and in the sub-family Stic- 

 tosporidae. 



STEININA OVALIS (Stein) Leger and Duboscq 



[Figures 92, 93, 94] 



1838 Clepsidrina polymorpha Hammerschmidt 1838:355 



1848 Stylorhynchus ovalis Stein 1848:182-223 



1848 Stylorhynchus ovalis Frantzius 1848:195 



1851 Gregarina ovalis Diesing 1851:9 



1863 Gregarina polymorpha Lankester 1863:95 



1875 Clepsidrina polymorpha Schneider 1875 :580-2 



1902 Gregarina polymorpha Berndt 1902:405 



1904 Steinina ovalis Leger and Duboscq 1904 :352-5 



1910 Steinina ovalis Pfeiffer 1910 :108 



Steinina: Sporonts solitary, obese. Length 100/*. Width not 

 given. Ratio length protomerite : total length : : 1 : 2.5 ; width proto- 

 merite : width deutomerite : : 1 : 1.4. Protomerite cylindrical, terminat- 



