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SPOEOZOA. 



life-cycle of the parasite. Only a brief abstract has beea 

 published so far, but through the courtesy of the authors 

 I have been able to consult the paper before it appears in print. 

 As first shown by Brasil (1908, 1909), there is a well-defined 

 " epimerite," but it differs from that organ as it occurs in the 

 Cephaline Gregarines. It is an invaginable apparatus, which 

 is sometimes like a conical trunk as in Lecudina aphroditse 

 (Lankester) or in L. polydorse (Leger) and sometimes like 



Fig. 25. — Lecudina hrasili Ganapathy & Aiyar. Trophozoite attached' 

 to the gut-wall. (After Ganapathy and Aiyar.) 



a spherical button as in L. elongata (Mingazzini), but the form 

 of the trophozoite is different from any of those species, and 

 resembles that of L. pellucida (Kolliker), in which the epimerite 

 is described as a simple small papilla. I do not agree with the 

 authors in thinking that the epimerite is endoplasmic. Their 

 figure shows that the thick pellicle does not extend forward 



