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dogs, cats, monkeys, deer, fowls, guinea-pigs, and lizards, 

 without referring them to different species. Baldrey (1911) 

 not only referred a form found in the blood of cavalry and 

 artillery horses at Mhow and Meerut to this species, but also 

 thought that B. gibsoni (Patton) was identical with it. Lingard 

 and Jennings, and Baldrey were wrong in referring the parasite 

 from cattle, dogs, sheep, and horses to P. tropicus when 

 P. bovis, P. canis, P. ovis, and P. equi were aheady known from 

 those animals. Since then other species have also been 

 described from these animals, and piroplasms of monkeys 



Fig. 158. — Babesia tropicus (Lingard & Jennings). A, from camei ; 

 B, from guinea-pig ; C, from elephant ; D, from the common 

 hzard. (After Lingard and Jennings.) 



and deer have been described as P. pithed and P. cervi. 

 No one else seems to have described piroplasms from elephants, 

 camels, fowls, guinea-pigs, and hzards, and for this residue 

 the name P. tropicus may be retained till the parasites from 

 these animals are examined again and the specific name 

 restricted to one particular form. 



Habitat. — Red blood- corpuscles of elephants, camels, guinea- 

 pigs, fowls, and lizards : tJisriTEi> Pkovinces ; Bareilly. 



