H^MOPROTEUS. 221 



154. Hsemoproteus glaucidii de Mello. 



■\Hsemoproteus glaucidii, de Mello, 1935 b, p. 473 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocyte vacuolated, stained deep blue with 

 Leishman's stain ; nucleus spherical and central or elongate 

 and situated on the convex border, stained rose ; pigment 

 scattered. Male gametocyte almost unstained ; nucleus large, 

 without definite borders, containing irregular chromatic 

 masses, subcentral in halter-like forms, central in the rounded 

 ones. Infected red cell hypertrophied, with its nucleus 

 retaining its position when the corpuscle contains a female 

 gametocyte, and displaced when there is a male gametocyte. 



Remarks. — De Mello thinks that perhaps the parasite is the 

 same as the unnamed Hsemoproteus of Glaucidium perlatum 

 recorded by A. & M. Leger (1914) in Niger, or perhaps it is 

 only a new variety of H. noctuse CelH & San Felice (1891). 



Habitat. — Blood of Glaucidium radiatum Tickell : Portu- 

 OTJESE India, Canacona. 



155. Haemoproteus gymnorhidis de Mello. 



fHeemoproteus sp., Plimmer, 1913, p. 148. 



•fHmmoproteiis gymnorhidis, de Mello, 1935 6, p. 474 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocytes halter- shaped, very slender, larger 

 at the poles, cytoplasm alveolar, stained deep blue with 

 Leishman's stain, more deeply at the poles ; nucleus central 

 or subcentral, rod-like, oval or bilobed ; pigment in clusters 

 of large granules at the centre and at the poles, in the latter 

 situation sometimes as a fine dust, rendering more intense the 

 dark staining of the cytoplasm in this part. The pigment 

 spreads a little round the granules, diffusing into the cytoplasm. 

 Male gametocyte halter-shaped or oval, not stained or shghtly 

 blue ; nucleus as in the female gametocyte. Pigment granules 

 very minute, mostly at the poles. Infected red cell hyper- 

 trophied. 



Remarks. — The parasite is probably the same as the unnamed 

 Haemoproteus from the Indian Gymnoris flavicollis recorded by 

 Plimmer (1913), as Gymnoris flavicollis is a synonym of 

 G. xanthocollis. 



Habitat. — Blood of the yellow-throated finch, Gymnoris 

 xanthocollis Burton : Portuguese India, Pragana ; also 

 from a specimen of the same species in the Zoological Gardens, 

 London. 



156. Hsemoproteus herodiadis de Mello. (Fig. 109.) 



■\Hsemoproteus herodiadis, de Mello, 1935 a, pp. 351-2, pi xlii 

 fig. 2 ; 1937 a, p. 101, pi. 1, fig. 1. 



Young stages roundish oval, fully developed halteridia never 

 embracing the nucleus of the red cell. Fusiform or irregularly 



