206 REV. M. J. BERKELEY 
Sciences, 1726, p. 302, under the name of Hia Tsao Tom 
Tchom, adrug much esteemed in China, whose properties are 
detailed by Duhalde, vol. 3, p. 490;—that by Watson and 
Hill in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society, 1763, 
vol. 53, p. 271, in their Memoir on Mouches Végétantes des 
Caraibes, and admirably figured by M. Fougeroux de Bonda- 
roy in Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, 1769, 
Mémoire sur les Insectes sur lesquels on trouve des plantes; 
and thirdly the parasite of the guépes végétantes are so 
many distinct species. A fourth and most extraordinary - 
species is one sent by Dr. Joseph Hooker from Australia. 
Unfortunately in none of these species have I been able to 
detect perfect asci and sporidia, by which probably they 
would be as well characterised as the already described 
species. The characters therefore given will be necessarily 
imperfect; but my object is not so much to establish the 
species as to collect them together, leaving to future ge 
servers the task of completing what I am unable to render - 
perfect. When the genus Spheria shall have been revised, - 
all will be arranged in Hypocrea. ia 
1. Spheeria militaris, Ehrh. GM C - 
2. Spheeria sphecocephala, Kl. in Hook. Herb. ; lenta, pal- er 
lida, stipite longissimo tortuoso: capitulo brevisubclavato. — 
Jamaica, Dr. Bancroft. St. Vincents, Rev. Lansdown Guid- — 
ing. And in other islands of the West Indies. ie 
The whole appearance of this species is very different from — 
that of any state of Spheria militaris. The name given to} 
by Klotzsch with the authority of Künze attached to it, 15- 
clearly a wrong transcription of Kiinze’s name in Myc 
Hefte, for a somewhat analogous form of Sp. militaris; VM» 
S. spherocephala. lt is, however, so good that I have 1%- 
tained it. Itis much to be desired that correct informatio? - 
should be obtained by some one resident in the West Indies. 
as to the developement of this species, and more perfect 
specimens procured than those in the collections of the 
British Museum, and Sir W. J. Hooker, to which alone T. 
have had access. The heads in these are dotted with the : 
