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a peculiar reddish tinge or refraction about them 

 (Fig. 11). 



2. Crenations. Focus alternately as dark and 

 bright points. They have no clear ring outline 

 (Fig. u). 



3. Platelets. Appear as somewhat indistinct 

 granular masses and do not possess the opaque white 

 look of parasites. The ' definiteness ' of a parasite* is 

 one of its chief characters. 



Fig. ii. i. Thin -portion of film. 2. Thicker portion: (a) a 

 distorted corpuscle with no pigment , (b) a crescent with pigment. 

 3. Crenated corpuscles. 4. Commencing crenation. 5. (c] Red 

 cells with processes ; (d) a male gamete with fiagella and pigment. 

 6. (e) vacuoles ; (/) a crack ; (g) a young parasite with very fine 

 pigment ; (h) a segmenting parasite with central pigment mass 



4. Eye Spots. Bi-convex in shape with a central 

 dot representing the pupil. They are seen in normal 

 blood, but have often been described as new varieties 

 of parasites. 



5. Red Cells with Long Wavy Processes. These 

 are seen especially in anaemic bloods after the fresh 



