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SPOROZOA. 



bent forms also occur. Sexual dimorphism of the gametocytes 

 only visible in the tinctorial reaction of the cytoplasm to 

 Romanowsky stains, it being light blue and alveolar in female 

 gametocytes and colourless, almost white, in male gametocytes. 



Fig. 109. — Heemoproteus herodiadis de Mello. 

 A, female gametocyte ; B, male gametocyte. (After de Mello.) 



Brownish-black pigment irregularly distributed in both. 

 Infection heavy. 



Remarhs. — De Mello thinks that the form is perhaps similar 

 to that found in Herodias alba in the Belgian Congo by 

 Rodhain, Pons, Vandenbranden, and Bequaert (1913). 



Habitat. — Blood of the heron, Egretta intermedia intermedia 

 (Wagler) : Porttjgfbsb India, lake of Carambolim. 



157. Haemoproteus kopki (de Mello). (Fig. 110.) 



'\Hsemocystidium kopki, de Mello, 1916, pp. 8-10, pi. i, figs. 1-17 ; 



de Mello, de Sa, de Sousa, Dias, & Noronha, 1917, p. 13. 

 Hsemoproteus simondi, Wenyon, 1926, p. 902. 

 ^Hsemoproteus kopki, de Mello, 1934 a, p. 378; 1934 6, pp. 1785- 



99, pi. i. 

 Hsemoproteus kopki, Coatney, 1936, p. 88. 



Yoimg stages round and non-pigmented. Female gameto- 

 cyte variable in form, usually halter-shaped or oval ; cyto- 

 plasm finely granular, staining deep blue with Leishman's 



A B C D 



Fig. 110. — Hsemoproteus kopki (de Mello). 



A, B, female gametocytes ; C, D, male gametocytes. 

 (After de Mello.) 



