232 SPOROZOA. 



identical with one or the other of those parasites, de Mello 

 has not given a name to the form observed by him. 



Habitat — Blood of Strix ocellata (Lesson) : Portuguese 

 India, Pragana. 



179. Hsemoproteus sp. 



■\Hsemoproteus sp., Knowles, 1928, p. 372. 



Habitat. — ^Blood of water-fowls, buzzards, Java sparrows, 

 munias, hawks, parrakeets, and canaries in the Ahpore 

 Zoological Gardens : Bengal, Calcutta. 



180. Hsemoproteus (?) SBgithinae de Mello. 



•f Hsemoproteus segitMnse, de Mello, 1935 6, p. 471 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocyte stained Hght blue with Leishman's 

 stain ; nucleus ovoid, central or subcentral ; pigment in 

 minute granules, scattered over the body. Male gametocjrfce 

 colourless ; nucleus oval, subcentral or central ; pigment in 

 fine granules, dust-hke, collected mostly at the poles. Red 

 cell hypertrophied, with its nucleus displaced. 



Habitat. — Blood of jEgithina tiphia (Linn.) : Portuguese 

 India, Nagoa (Salcete). 



181. Haemoproteus (?) antM de Mello. 



"^Hsemoproteus anthi, de Mello, 1935 &, p. 474 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocyte stained hght blue, but not uniformly, 

 with Leishman's stain ; nucleus compact, central or sub- 

 central, stained deep rose. Male gametocyte not stained ; 

 nucleus oval or triangular, central. Pigment in both kinds 

 of gametocytes brown, coffee-coloured, irregularly scattered, 

 seldom located at the poles. Infected red cell hypertrophied, 

 with its nucleus displaced. 



Remarks. — De Mello thinks that the parasite is perhaps 

 similar to the unnamed Hsemoproteiis recorded from Anthtis 

 trivialis by Galli Valerio (1902) in Europe, from A. japonicus 

 by Ogawa (1911) in Japan, and from A. pratensis by Nieschulz 

 (1921, 1922) in Heligoland. 



Habitat. — Blood of Anthus richardi rufulus Vieillot : Portu- 

 guese India, Nagoa (Salcete). 



182. Hsemoproteus (?) bramse de Mello. 



■fHsemoproteus sp., Donovan (first recorded in Wenyon, 1926, 



p. 1366). 

 ■^Hsemoproteus bramse, de Mello, 1935 h, pp. 474-5 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocyte halter-shaped, slender, more or less 

 irregular, somewhat constricted in the middle, rarefy oval. 



