168 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



On the upper surface of abdomen of Quedius vernilis Lee, Illinois. 



The insertion cell of the appendages in this species is broad and 

 remains hyaline until the plant is nearly mature, when it is not very 

 deeply blackened. 



Laboulbenia proliferans, nov. sp. 



Reddish brown more or less tinged with olive. Perithecia tinged 

 with olive, darker below the hyaline lips, normal in form. Appen- 

 dages consisting of two closely united basal cells nearly equal, seated on 

 a thick black insertion cell, and bearing usually two simple branches, 

 the outer longer. The appendages with their insertion cell are 

 pushed outwards from the perithecium by the enlargement and division 

 of cell (5), from the upper part of which one or two small cells may be 

 cut off by oblique partitions, each becoming proliferous and producing 

 a simple appendage similar to and equalling the normal appendages. 

 Receptacle elongate, normal except for the proliferation of cell (5). 

 Spores 60-70 X 5.5 jx. Perithecia 165-170 X 55 fi. Longest ap- 

 pendages 460 fi. Total length to tip of perithecium 435-540 fi. 



On elytra of Eudema tropicum Hope, Sierra Leone ; " Chlcenius 

 auricollis Gory, Syria " ; Dolichus sp. ?, Japan. 



A large species at once distinguished by the proliferation of cell 

 (5). The material from Syria and Japan, though in poor condition, is 

 identical with that from Africa. 



Laboulbenia Coptoder^, nov. sp. 



More or less suffused with faintly olive brown. Perithecium rather 

 large, the apex, which is bent slightly outwards, dark, the lateral lips 

 forming a slight angular prominence over the lateral external pore. 

 Appendages two, the outer single, curved outwards, blackened exter- 

 nally or wholly opaque, giving rise from its convex side to several suc- 

 cessive branches rather irregular in outline and often once branched 

 above their basal cells. Inner appendage consisting of a larger basal 

 cell which gives rise from its apex on either side to a branch, these two 

 branches in turn successively several times branched, but in a plane at 

 right angles to their own ; the lower cells more or less deeply suff"used 

 or externally blackened. Receptacle normal, cell (2) of large diameter. 

 Spores 40 X 3.5 /n. Perithecia 100-110 X 33-35 fx. Appendages 

 (longest) 150 ix. Total length to tip of perithecium (average) 200 n. 



On Coptodera Championi Bates, Panama, growing along the outer 

 margin of the elytra. 



