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SPOROZOA. 



Habitat. — Leucocytes of the squirrel, Funambulus pennantii 

 Wroughton, and the body of the louse, Hasmatopinus sp, : 

 Bombay, Kathiawar. 



Fig. 68. — Hepatozoon funambuU (Patton). A, two leucocytes, showing 

 two parasites in each ; B, three free forms, showing chromatic 

 particles ; C, four free parasites from spleen-smears ; D, free 

 attenuate form from peripheral blood ; E, free vermicule 

 from the peripheral blood ; F, vermicule from the mid-gut of 

 the squirrel-louse ; G, large vermicule from the body-cavity 

 of the louse. (After Patton.) 



88. Hepatozoon gerbilli (Christophers). (Fig. 69.) 



^Hsemogregarina gerbilli, Christophers, 1905, pp. 1-15, 1 pi. 

 Hsemogregarina gerbilli, Patton, 1906, p. 3. 

 Hepatozoon gerbilli, Minehin, 1912, pp. 376, 377. 

 Hsemogregarina gerbilli, Castellani & Chalmers, 1919, p. 485. 

 Hepatozoon gerbilli, Wenyon, 1926, pp. 1085, 1358 ; Reichenow, 

 1929, p. 922. 



Stages of the schizogonous multiplication are not known. 

 Gametocytes are found in the red blood-corpuscles and are 

 marked by a short hook-shaped projection at their hinder end. 



