360 SPOEOZOA. 



II. Suborder DICNIDEA Leger & Hesse, 

 1922. 



Micro SPORIDIA in which the spore is provided with two 

 polar capsules, one at each end, each containing a polar 

 filament. 



The suborder includes the single family Telomyxidse* 

 Leger & Hesse, 1910, but no representative has been recorded 

 from India up to the present time. 



IV. Order HELICOSPORIDIA 

 Kudo, 1931. 



Minute spore, composed of a thin membrane of one piece, 

 containing three uninucleate sporoplasms, around which is 

 coiled a long, thick filament. Young trophozoites are histozoic 

 or coelozoic, undergo schizogony, and produce uninucleate 

 sporonts. The sporont divides twice and forms four small 

 cells, each of which develops into a spore. 



The order has been created by Kudo (1931) to include the 

 species Helicospiridium parasiticum Keihn from the body of 

 certain insects. The structure of tbe spore is quite peculiar, 

 and the species was previously referred to Haplospokidia. 

 According to Kudo it seems to be best placed in the Cnido- 

 SPORiDiA, if it is a Protozoan. 



