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Africa; British Museum, No. 591. On Eudema sp., Congo, Africa; 

 Paris, Nos. 84 and 152. 



Var. atrata nov. var. Cell V two to five times proliferous, the 

 accessory appendages distinguished by thick black bases, simple or once 

 to twice divergently branched. On Chlaenius Dohrini Bert., Tropical 

 E. Africa; Berlin Museum, No. 226. On Euchlaenius trochantericus 

 Kolbe, Njam Njam, Semnio, Africa; Berlin Museum, No. 921. On 

 Craspedophorus nucata Harold, " Regne Lugna " ? Africa ; Berlin 

 Museum, No. 908. On C. Westermanni Laf., Togo, Africa ; Berlin 

 Museum, No. 909. On Rhopalomelus angusticollis Boh., Port Natal, 

 Africa ; British Museum, No. 630. Ou Rhopalomelus sp., Africa ; 

 Hope Collection, No. 311. 



Var. cincta nov. var. Like var. atrata, the perithecium borne on a 

 black base, differentiated in a manner similar to that of the typical inser- 

 tion-cells of the genus. On Eudema sinuaticolle Laf., Lagos, Guinea ; 

 British Museum, No. 590. On E. grossum Hope, Old Calabar, Africa ; 

 British Museum, No. 587. On Episcosomus {Eudema) grossus Hope, 

 Africa ; Paris Museum, No. 81. On Craspedophorus adaequatus 

 Kolbe, Bismarkdorf, Togo, Africa; Berlin Museum, No. 919, and 

 Kamerun, Africa; Berlin Museum, No. 912- On C. Congoanus 

 Kolbe, Kimpoko, Congo, Africa ; Berlin Museum, No. 907. On C. 

 Preusii Kolbe ; Barumba Station, Kamerun, Africa ; Berlin Museum., 

 No. 910. On C. (Eudema) Strachani Hope, Togo, Africa; Berlin 

 Museum, No. 913. 



Var. divaricata nov. var. Cell V once proliferous or sometimes 

 normal without proliferation, the primary appendages copiously several 

 times branched, the branches or brauchlets commonly more or less marked 

 by basal blackish suffusions, divaricate, slender, tapering, flexuous. 

 On Chlaenius sp., Sandakan, Borneo ; British Museum, No. 664. On 

 Chlaenius? sp., Victoria, Australia; Hope Collection, No. 339. On 

 Notonomus viridescens Chaud. ? New Zealand; Paris Museum, No. 

 159. On Bembus gigas Bates, Japan; Paris Museum, No. 133. On 

 Rhembus laevis Lesne, Java; Paris Museum, No. 109. 



Laboulbenia sphyriopsis nov. sp. 



Perithecium free, projecting at right angles to the axis of the recep- 

 tacle or recurved, opaque, blackish brown, slightly asymmetrically inflated 

 below, the tip not distinguished, very broad, truncate or bluntly rounded, 

 concolorous. Receptacle relatively slender, hyaline, cells I and II rela- 

 tively very large, the rest small ; cell I shorter, often tinged with brown ; 



