1. A diphasic medium of simple preparation is described for the indefinite cultivation of T. rhodesiense and T. gambiense. 2. The chief advantage of the medium is that it contains rabbit blood and thus obviates the necessity of using human blood. 3. The flagellates develop only to the proventricular stage; hence the cultures are noninfective. 4. The proventricular forms of both T. rhodesiense and T. gambiense consume sugar with the concomitant formation of acid. They are aerobic fermenters. 5. Very little, if any, ammonia is produced by the living parasites.
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