H^MOPROTEUS. 



22a 



or May-Grunwald Giemsa stain, with small irregular alveoli 

 uniformly distributed all over the body, sometimes with larger 

 vacuoles or even larger clear zones ; nucleus a compact 

 chromatic granule, stained faintly rose ; pigment granules very 

 small, and scattered irregularly all over the body. Male 

 gametocyte usually ovoid, not halter-shaped ; cytoplasm, 

 not staining or only staining light straw-yellow or light grey, 

 with very distinct vacuoles, rarely without them ; nucleus 

 granular, compact, sausage -shaped or oval, only faintly 

 staining, and always larger than in the female gametocyte ; 

 pigment granules larger than in the female gametocjrfce, and 

 situated in one, two or three well circumscribed vacuoles. 

 Infected red ceU hypertrophied, dehsemoglobinized, with its 

 nucleus displaced. Schizogony in the monocytes or endotheUal 

 cells of the lung. 



Eemarks. — ^De Mello (1934 b) has described the schizogony 

 occurring in the pulmonary epithelium of the infected Uzard 

 as very similar to that of Hsemoproteus in birds. This, 

 along with similarity in other characters, definitely estabhshes 

 the identity of Hsemocystidium, with Hsemoproteus. He has 

 further shown that H. kopM is specifically distinct from 

 H. simondi, and not identical as was believed by Wenyon. 



Habitat. — Blood and lungs of Hemidactylus brooki Gray : 

 Portuguese India, Nova Goa. 



158. Hsemoproteus machlolophi de Mello. (Fig. 111.) 



^Hsemoproteus danilewskyi, Plimmer, 1912, p. 417. 

 ^Hsemoproteus machlolophi, de Mello, 1935 a, pp. 353-4, pi. xliii, 

 fig. 3 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Halteridia forms not very conspicuous ; nucleus sub- 

 central, stained pale rose with Leish man's stain. Female 



A B 



Fig. 111. — Hsemoproteus machlolophi (de Mello). 

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



gametocytes very irregular, denticulated in outline, stained 

 greyish-blue ; pigment dark-brown, granules irregularly 

 scattered in the cytoplasm. Male gametocytes of a regular 



