382 Transactions. 



Doubtful Species. 



The following have been recorded as occurring in New Zealand, but as 

 no specimens have to my knowledge been collected, and as none from this 

 biological area exist in any of the mycological herbariums abroad, they are 

 here recorded as doubtful. 



Cordyceps gracilis Grev. 



Host. — " Larvae of insects." 



Massee (17) states that this species — determined by him as Cordyceps 

 entomorrhiza (Dicks.) Link — -was collected by Colenso and sent to Kew. 

 There are no specimens of this fungus from New Zealand in the Kew 

 Herbarium (14). 



Cordyceps Gunnii Berk. 



Olliff (I.e.) doubtfully records this species for New Zealand without 

 mention as to who collected it, where it was collected, or where the original 

 reference was obtained. It is probable that a specimen of Cordyceps 

 Craigii Lloyd has been mistaken for it. 



Frequent mention is made of a species of Cordyceps attacking Hepialus 

 virescens Dbld. Unfortunately, I have not seen any specimens, and so 

 cannot do more than record this animal as a host. The following particu- 

 lars have been supplied by Mr. Myers : — 



In the Entomologist, London, vol. 31, p. 128, 1898, W. G. Howes records 

 the discovery of " vegetable caterpillars " in the trunks of trees buried at a 

 considerable depth and exposed by mining operations at Orepuki. Southland. 

 The situation of these infected larvae was taken as indubitable proof that 

 Hepialus was the host [of C. Rcbertsii]. The matter, however, must remain 

 extremely uncertain, since Hepialus virescens is confined to the North Island. 



The second case occurred about 1903, when G. V. Hudson was " shown 

 a specimen of a vegetable caterpillar in the trunk of a tree. . . . On 

 examination I at once recognized the insect as a larva of Hepialus virescens, 

 and the portion of the tree-trunk with the burrow in which this larva was 

 situated precisely agreed with the usual habitat of that species." 



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12. Linnaeus, C., Clavaria, Species Plantarum, p. 1182, 1753. 



13. Lloyd, C. G., Myc. Notes, p. 528, 1911. 



14. Synopsis Cordyceps Australasia, p. 11, 1915. 



15. Myc. Notes, p. 809, fig. 1260, 1918. 



16. Myc, Notes, p. 912, 1920. 



17. Massee,' G., Annals of Botany, vol. 9, p. 26, 1895. 



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