76' 



SPOROZOA. 



The size of the parasites was not determined. The parasites 

 were observed in the fluid used for preserving the host, without 

 clearing or staining them. In the absence of proper proto- 

 zoological technique it is by no means certain that the branching 

 stalk was not some tissue of the host, or that the organism 

 is really binucleate. Also what is described by the author 

 of the species as bi-stalked and tri-stalked forms may, perhaps, 



Fig. 21. — Nellocystis hirmanica Gates, a, portion of a solitary individual ; 



b, portion of the anterior end, more highly magnified ; 



c, bi-stalked form ; d, tri-stalked form. (After Gates.) 



have been syzygies or gametocytes in a process of association 

 The organism is so remarkable that it would be well worth 

 further detailed study. 



Habitat. — Coelom of the earthworm, Pheretima compta 

 Gates : Burma, Toungoo Hills. 



6. Family DIPLOCYSTID^ Bhatia, 1930. 



Trophozoites fusing in pairs to form spherical gametocysts. 

 Sporocysts spherical or oval ; octozoic. 



The family includes two genera, Lankesteria and Diplocystis ; 

 only the former is known from India so far. 



