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SPOROZOA. 



Genus THELOHANIA Henneguy, 1892. 



Thelohania, Henneguy, in Thelohan, 1892, p. 174; Gurley, 1893, 

 p. 410; Thelohan, 1895, p. 361; Labbe, 1899, pp. 111-12; 

 Minchin, 1903, pp. 285, 297, 320; Perez, 1905, p. 17 ; Minchin, 

 1912, p. 418 ; Castellani & Chalmers, 1919, p. 529; Kudo, 1924 c, 

 pp. 67, 130-63; Wenyon, 1926, p. 738; Reichenow, 1929, 

 p. 1102 ; Kudo. 1931, p. 321 ; Calkins, 1933, p. 569 ; Reichenow, 

 1935, p. 390. 



Each sporont develops into eight sporoblasts and ulti- 

 mately into eight spores. The sporont-membrane may 

 degenerate at different times of development. 



Key to Indian Species. 



1 (4). Spores oval, with equally rounded ex- 



tremities 2. 



2 (3). Spore 4-5-2 ju, by 2-4-2-8 fi T. indica Kudo, p. 356. 



3 (2). Spore 4-75-6 /x by 3-4 /n T. legeri Hesse, p. 357. 



4 (1). Spores broadly oblong with dissimilar 



extremities, showing a small knob at 

 one end and a clear oblong space at 

 the other ; 4-5-5 fj, by 3-3-5 ju T.ohscura Kudo, p. 359. 



296. Thelohania indica Kudo. (Fig. 176.) 



■^Thelohania sp., Iyengar, 1929, p. 138. 



\Thelohania indica. Kudo, 1929, pp. 3-4, figs. 19-50. 



The schizonts are elongated bodies containing four to eight 



Fig. 176. — Thelohania indica Kudo. A, tetranucleate schizont ; 

 B, octonucleate schizont ; C, division into binueleate 

 schizonts ; D-F, stages in formation of sporont ; G, spo- 

 ront ; H, sporont with eight sporoblasts ; /, sporont with 

 mature spores ; J, stained spore. (After Kudo.) 



