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Tr. agilis. number 59 seems also a Tr. ogilis with the anterior extremity 

 bent on a superior plane. As you know, Professor Bugnion did not 

 identify any of the parasites from Ceylon Termites. 



Trichonyraphids have also been recorded by Professor Bugnion as 

 found in the intestine of Termites of the genera Glyptotermes and Termi- 

 togeton. The five figures given by Professor Bugnion in his paper illustra- 

 ting the description of Termitogeton umbilicatus. Hag., in the Annales 

 de la Societe Entomohgique de France, Volume LXXXIII (1914), belong 

 to Trichonymfha agilis. 



Plate 170, figures 61-68, represent the parasites of Arrhinotermes 

 flaws from Ceylon according to the figures of Professor Bugnion. You 

 see also here Tr. agilis and L. metchnikowi. I cannot say to what species 

 figure 66 may belong. 



I will now show (Plate 170, figures 69-74) the parasites of H. viarum 

 of Coimbatore from the slides prepared by Mr. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 

 I could easily identify the species Tr. agilis and L. metchnikmvi. But 

 H. viarum contains numerous other species which can only be classified 

 by a study iu loco. I hope that one of the colleagues that honours me 

 by hearing this lecture will apply himself to this task whose interest 

 is recognized everjTvhere. 



I have also reproduced (Plate 170, figures 80-87) the Trichonymphids 

 of Cahtermes greeni, as given by Professor Bugnion. I cannot identify 

 them. These are certainly new genera to be described. But Professor 

 Bugnion's figures have not the necessary neatness to encourage a 

 classification. His descriptions are also too short. I must however, 

 say that the circular form is common to all Trichonymphids en etat 

 de souff ranee and it is not only on this morphology that an identification 

 can be based. 



Finally I must tell you that I have studied the parasites of two 

 species of Coptotermes collected at Daman and Pragana, our possessions 

 near Bombay. These species of Coptotermes have not yet been identified. 

 That of Daman has the following fauna : — Tr. agilis, Leidya metchnikowi, 

 L. annandalei, Opalina termitis, and the common Spirochsete of white 

 ants or Treponema termitis. The termite of Pragana has Tr. agilis, 

 Leidya metchnikmvi, L. annandalei, L. kempi, Franciella termitis and the 

 same spirochaete that I have also found in two other species of Termites. 

 I am quite glad to see that Tr. agilis of both these species of Termites 

 is just the same as the Trichonympha of Leucotermes indicola and I dare 

 say that this protozoon in India and Ceylon has the same characteristics 

 that I have already described. 



True Trichonymphids belong to the class of Mastigophora. The 

 absence of a micronucleus in some of them, the existence of basal granules 



