Some Parasitic Protozoa from the Gambia

. A new species of Eimeria from the fat‐tailed gecko Hemidactylus brookei in Gambia, West Africa, was described and named E. helenae in honor of Mrs. Helen Levine. The oocysts averaged 22.2 μm and each contained four sporocysts (8.0 × 6.9 μ m) with two sporozoites per sporocyst. No schizogony or gametogony was discovered in the intestine, suggesting that these stages may occur in the liver or bile cannuli. The oocysts of an adeleid parasite of the insect prey of the centipede Scolopendrium morsitans were described. Plasmodium agamae, an eimeriid hemogregarine, Pirhaemocyton, and a Shellackia‐type parasite were found in the blood of agamid lizards. The fruit bat Epomorphorus gambianus was commonly and heavily infected with Hepatocystis epomorphori.