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SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 
New Genus of Gregarines.* — M. L. Leger describes a new genus of 
the Dactyloplioridm, which he calls Bhopalonia. The specific name 
Geophili refers to its presence as a parasite in Geophilidae, the only 
group of Chilopoda in which Gregarines have not till now been found. 
The parasite is found in the digestive tube, and is half a millimetre 
long. Unlike other Dactylophoridse, this new form has one, and not 
two segments, but its history is the same as that of the four already 
known genera, which are confined to Myriopods, and appear to form a 
very homogeneous family. 
Structure of Nucleus of Crescentiform Bodies of Malaria.| — 
Ur. Sakharotf stained the blood of callow ravens taken from nests in 
malaria districts with Bomanowski’s mixture of eosin and methylen-blue. 
The nuclei of the plasmodia were clearly stained, and the staining 
showed that they were composed of fibrillm which not unfrequently 
presented karyokinetic figures. The flagellate bodies by this method of 
staining appeared like parasites the nuclei of which had split up into 
chromatin filaments. The author infers that the formation of flagellate 
bodies depends on a karyokinetic fission process disturbed by the in- 
fluence of cooling. With the blood of men sick of malaria in which 
crescentiform bodies were to be found, the author obtained the same 
results as he did when he procured blood from malaria patients by 
means of leeches and allowed it to dry for half an hour after removal. 
* Comptes Pendus, cxviii. (1894) pp. 1285-8. 
f Protokolle d. Kaukasischen Med. Gesellsch., 1893-4, Nos. 7 and 12. See 
Centralbl. f. Bakteriol. u. Parasitenk., xv. (1894) p. 962. 
