ILaiMOPEOTEUS. 229 



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

 recorded by Danilewsky (1889) ia Southern Russia from 

 Upupa epops. 



Habitat. — Blood of Upupa epops orientalis Stuart Baker : 

 Portuguese India, Daman. 



166. Hsemoproteus wenyoni de Mello, de Sa, de Sousa, Dias, 

 & Noronha. (Fig. 116.) 



"fHxtnoproteus wenyoni, de Mello, de Sa, Sousa, Dias, & Noronha, 

 1917,^p. 11-12, pi. i, figs. 18-44 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocyte ovoid or halter-shaped, not displacing 

 the nucleus of the infected red blood-corpuscle, stained deep 

 blue mth Leishman's stain ; nucleus small, spherical, compact, 

 and almost always situated near one pole of the gametocyte 

 at its convex border ; pigment granules brown, scattered 

 a,ll over the body, rarely confined to one pole. Male gameto- 

 cyte stained blue ; nucleus usually central, polymorphic. 



A B C 



Pig. 116. — Hsemoproteus wenyoni de Mello, de Sa, de Sousa, Dias, 

 & Noronha. A, female gametocjrte ; B, male gametocyte ; 

 C, extra-corpuscular schizont. (After de Mello and others.) 



being a compact chromatic granule or comma- shaped, linear 

 or doubled up, or pjrriform, etc. ; pigment yellowish-brown, 

 darker than in the female gametocyte, and nearly always 

 situated at both the poles. 



Schizogony observed in smears from the liver and the lung, 

 but never in the peripheral blood. Schizonts small or of 

 medium size. "Acton body " rounded, showing nuclear multi- 

 plication. Merozoites not seen. 



Remarks. — The form of the gametocytes, and the occurrence 

 of schizogony in smears from the Hver and the lung, make it 

 reasonably certain that the parasite is a Hsemoproteus. The 

 so-called "Acton body " is probably a detached endothehal 

 cell of the blood-vessel. 



Habitat. — Blood and smears from the liver and the lung of 

 the tailor-bird, Orthotomus sutorius (Pennant) : Portuguese 

 India, Nova Goa. 



