212 SPOROZOA. 



Coatney (1936) has catalogued 45 species of Hmmoproteus 

 and has given a complete hst of 650 avian and 22 reptiUan 

 hosts from which they had been recorded up to the time 

 of his compilation. 



147. HaBmoproteus antigonis de Mello. 



■fHsemoproteus antigonis, de Mello, 1935 6, p. 471 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocyte with alveolar cytoplasm, stained blue 

 with Lieshman's stain ; nucleus compact, oval, shghtly 

 subcentral, stained rose, lodged in a vacuole. Male gametocyte 

 pale violet ; nucleus granular, central. Pigment coffee-brown, 

 scattered over the body ; in the female gametocyte often in 

 clusters or in two large masses united by a batonette. 



Remarks. — The parasite may possibly be the same as that 

 recorded by Scott (1926) from Antigone antigone (Linn.). 



Habitat. — Blood of Anthropoides virgo (Linn.) : Pobtfguesb 

 India, Junagad. 



148. Hsemoproteus asturis de Mello. 



■fHsemoproteus asturis dussumieri, de Mello, 1935 b, p. 469 ; 1937 a, 

 p. 100. 



Female gametocytes with alveolar cytoplasm, stained light 

 TdIuc with Leishman's stain, nucleus pale rose. Male gameto- 

 cyte colourless, nucleus more conspicuous. General form 

 oval, especially in male, rarely halter-like in female. Nucleus 

 sometimes subcentral. Pigment granules dark brown, of 

 •different sizes, irregularly scattered in both kinds of gameto- 

 cytes. 



Remarks. — De Mello has given to this form a trinomial 

 designation to avoid confusion with the unnamed Hsemoproteus 

 of Astur plumbarius recorded by Wasielewsky in Germany 

 in 1908. 



Habitat. — Blood of Astur badius dussumieri (Temm. & 

 Lang.) : Portxjgtjesb India, Corlim (Ilhas). 



149. Hsemoproteus cerchneisi, sp. nov. 



■\H3emoproteus sp., de Mello, 1935 b, p. 472 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocyte halter-like, cytoplasm alveolar, stained 

 greyish-blue with Leishman's stain ; nucleus generally round 

 and compact, but often quadrangular and consisting of a central 

 mass with appendages all round, subcentral on the convex 

 border of the parasite, stained hght red and lodged in a vacuole : 

 pigment coffee-brown with oHve tone, granules or clusters 

 irregularly distributed. Male gametocyte oval or round, 

 and causing a sort of hernia on the periphery of the red cell ; 

 cytoplasm colourless or light violet ; nucleus subcentral or 



