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SPOROZOA. 



Remarks. — Shipley (1904) and Willey, Chalmers, and 

 Philip (1905) iirst described the sarcosporidial infection in 

 buffaloes in Ceylon. According to Wenyon as many as four 

 species have been named by different observers from the 

 buffalo, but these are probably identical, and Reichenow 

 recognizes only 8. hlanchardi. Chatter jee (1907) found the 

 cysts and spores of Sarcocystis sp. in the heart-muscle of a cow. 

 He did not find fine radiations round the capsule. The spores 



Fig. 179. — Sarcocystis hlanchardi Doflein. A, transverse section ; 

 B, longitudinal section of the infected muscle-fibres of 

 a young individual (a, muscle-fibre ; h, parasite) ; C, longi- 

 tudinal section through a portion of the cyst in the oesopha- 

 gus of cattle (a, muscle-fibre ; b, cyst-membrane ; c, nucleus 

 of the muscle-fibre ; d, spores ; e, partition-walls between 

 the chambers). (From Wasielewski, after Van Eecke.) 



were grouped in loculi, but distinct alveolar partitions could 

 not be made out. 



Habitat.' — Muscles of buffalo, Bos huhalus Linn. : Ceylon ; 

 heart-muscle of cow, Bos indicus Linn. : Bengal, Calcutta. 



