236 SPOROZOA. 



Leishman's stain ; nucleus small, oval or triangular, generally 

 subcentral, not staining or very lightly with Leishman's 

 stain, staining well with May-Grunwald Giemsa stain ; pig- 

 ment granules large, scattered irregularly over the body. 

 Male gametocyte irregularly halter-shaped, almost quadrangu- 

 lar, not stained or very light blue ; nucleus large, central, 

 without definite outline, with chromatinic masses irregularly 

 scattered or disposed in a reticulum ; pigment granules very 

 minute, located at the poles. Infected red cell hypertrophied, 

 with its nucleus displaced. 



Bemarks. — Unnamed species of Hasmoproteus have been 

 previously recorded from many different species of the genus 

 Lanius in different parts of the world. 



Habitat. — Blood of Lanius schach erythronotus Vigors : Por- 

 tuguese India, Ponda. 



190. Hsemoproteus (?) otocompsse de Mello. 



"fHsemoproteus otocompsse, de Mello, 1935 b, p. 473 ; 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocyte with cytoplasm stained pale blue with 

 Leishman's stain and rose with May-Grunwald Giemsa stain, 

 seldom vacuolated ; nucleus spherical, subcentral, seldom 

 elongated, situated on the convex border ; pigment scattered 

 over the body. Male gametocyte not stained with Leishman's 

 stain, pale rose with May-Grunwald Giemsa stain ; nucleus 

 very large, granular, without definite outhne, subcentral ; 

 pigment at the poles. Infected red cell hypertrophied, with 

 its nucleus displaced. 



Bemarks. — According to de Mello the parasite is perhaps 

 identical with the unnamed Hsemoproteus of Picnonotus harhatus 

 recorded by A. and M. Leger in Senegal. 



Habitat. — Blood of Elathea jocosa (Linn.) [^Otocompsa 

 emeria (Linn.)] : Portuguese India, Malim (Bardez). 



191. Haemoproteus (?) pastoris de Mello. 



■\Heemoproteus vastoris, de Mello, 1935 b, p. 470. 

 Hsemoproteus sp., Coatney, 1936, p. 98. 

 Heem,oproteus pastoris, de Mello, 1937 a, p. 100. 



Female gametocyte stained blue with Leishman's stain, 

 with a small ovoid nucleus, central or subcentral, stained 

 pale rose ; halter-shaped or ovoid, and in the latter case 

 nucleus of the host- cell completely displaced ; pigment 

 scattered all over the body. Male gametocyte colourless or 

 very shghtly blue, halter-shaped, ovoid or irregularly deformed ; 

 nucleus indistinct, composed of chromatic masses disposed 

 like the spokes of a wheel, or in irregularly weaved threads ; 

 pigment polar in halter-shaped forms, scattered over the 



