THAXTER. NEW LABOULBENIACEAE. 35 



what more slender, and more often erect. Total length including foot 

 40 X 6.5 fx ; to tip of discharge-tube 47 /x. 



Female individual. Receptacle relatively small, tinged with dirty 

 yellowish, edged with brown to the tip of the small terminal sterile cell. 

 Perithecium dirty yellowish and relatively large, considerably and more 

 or less symmetrically inflated, above and including its basal cells, to the 

 base of the tip, which is bent abruptly outward at right angles to the axis 

 of the perithecium; the apex broad, blunt, the lip-cells hardly projecting: 

 a unicellular brown, straight or slightly curved, spine-like process, which 

 tapers to a blunt point, projects upward at an angle of about 45° from 

 the middle of the outer (anterior) margin of the perithecium ; and a 

 slisht elevation is also more or less distinct between its base and that of 

 the tip ; the stalk-cell relatively short, becoming rapidly narrower toward 

 its base. Spores (male) 26 X 4^, (female) 40 X 6/x,. Perithecia 

 including basal cells 125 X 50 /x, the spinous process 55 /a, the stalk-cell 

 36-40 ju. Receptacle to tip of sterile cell about 45 ^u,. Total length to 

 tip of perithecium about 185 /a. 



On Anthicus jioralis Linn., with the last two species, more commonly 

 on the inferior surface of the abdomen. Fresh Pond, Cambridge. 



Teratomyces Zealandica nov. sp. 



Receptacle with a distinct distal obliquity, opaque with the exception 

 of a hyaline area just above the foot, the margins straight, the distal por- 

 tion relatively narrow, the base relatively broad, the suffusion involving 

 the bases of the appendiculate cells which are relatively numerous and 

 narrow and more or less suffused with brownish yellow. Appendages 

 sometimes scanty, but slightly divergent, concolorous throughout, nearly 

 hyaline or pale yellowish ; the basal cells of the larger branches rela- 

 tively slender, the external branchlets and numerous beak-like cells hardly 

 more deeply colored. Perithecia relatively large, long, rather slender, 

 slightly inflated throughout, the blunt tip more or less abruptly distin- 

 guished ; the stalk-cell very short or almost obsolete, hidden by the 

 appendages; the basal cells relatively small and not distinguished from 

 the body of the perithecium. Spores about 50 X 2.5-3 ju. Perithecia 

 150-180 X 20-28 /A, basal and stalk-cells together about 35 /i. Longest 

 appendage 180 /x. Receptacle 75-125 X 15-18 (base) 22-30 ^u, (distally). 



On Quedius insolitus Sharp. Dunedin, New Zealand. Sharp Collec- 

 tion, No. 1099. 



