ADDENDA. 377 



ADDENDA. 



Genus STOMATOPHORA Drzewecki, 1907, emend. 

 Hesse, 1909, and Bhatia, 1924. 



(Pages 68-72.) 

 308. Stomatophora primitiva Bhatia & Setna. (Fig. 183.) 



fStoinatophora sp., Bhatia & Setna, 1935, p. 312. 



J Stomatophora primitiva, Bhatia & Setna, 1938 (in press). 



Trophozoite almost spherical, Avith a cup-like sucker near 

 the anterior end. The sucker is not provided with a central 



Fig. 183. — -Stomatophora primitiva Bh. & Set. 

 (After Bhatia and Setna.) 



mucron. Numerous epicytal striations radiate outwards 

 over the body for some distance round the sucker. Nucleus 

 rounded, with a large spherical karyosome. Gametocysts 

 slightly ellipsoidal. 



Dimensions. — Length of trophozoite 222 ju., width 203*5 ju, ; 

 nucleus 44-4 /a by 37/x, : gametocyst measures 222 /x by 203-5 /i. 



Remarks. — ^All the previously known species of the genus 

 Stomatophora and of other genera included in the family 

 Stomatophoridse are parasites of earthworms belonging to 

 the genus Pheretima. The present species is the first record 

 from a polychsete. It recalls in its structure S. simplex Bhatia, 

 1924, from which it differs in the absence of a central mucron 



