182 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMEEICAN ACADEMY. 



Laboulbenia Italica nov. sp. 



Peritheciiim free except at its base, rather short and stout, the upper 

 half or third curved strongly outward, the tip large, sulcate, blackened, the 

 lips coarse, nearly equal, subhyaline. Receptacle concolorous with the 

 perithecium, the base nearly hyaline, usually bent between cells I and 

 II, short, abruptly expanded above cell II, the anterior margin straight 

 above cell I. Appendages arranged very much as in L. orientalis, the 

 basal cells subtriangular, the outer producing externally an oblique row 

 of about four superposed branches from a blackened area of insertion, the 

 branches erect mostly twice subdichotomously branched, all the lower 

 septa blackened and constricted, the inner appendage similar to the outer : 

 the insertion-cell normally placed, broad, subhyaline, close to base of 

 perithecium. Antheridia brown, the vente much inflated, the neck 

 becoming pointed, 23 X 8 //. Perithecia 100 X 42 jU. Total length to 

 tip of perithecium 275 ^i ; to insertion-cell 175 fi. Appendages 140jM. 



On Brachinus explodens Duft., Florence Museum, Florence, Italy. 



Laboulbenia Javana nov. sp. 



Perithecium about two thirds or less free, sessile, tinged with brown, 

 paler in the middle, the distal portion hyaline and tapei'ing considerably to 

 the greatly modified tip, which is deeply suffused with blackish brown and 

 bears two often symmetrically placed divergent outgrowths, the inner 

 broader at the base and much shorter than the outer which is finger-like, 

 with a hyaline area above, close beside the subterminal pore : the 

 outer of these two projections appears, through a twist in the perithe- 

 cium, to lie on the inner side. Receptacle pale yellowish with brownish 

 shades, the deeply suffused base of the perithecium opposite the upper 

 half of cell III or lower ; the distal portion usually so twisted and bent 

 in conjunction with the perithecium that it crosses the latter and the 

 appendages at a considerable angle. Insertion-cell higher than the middle 

 of the perithecium. Appendages concolorous with the receptacle, consist- 

 ing of an outer basal cell which bears a single simple branch, slightly 

 nodulose above and below the septa, the basal cell of the inner appendage 

 smaller, bearing a single branch on either side which may be once 

 branched, Perithecia about 100 ^u long exclusive of outgrowth, 27/* 

 broad. Total length to tip of perithecium 190 /* ; to insertion-cell 140 /i. 

 Appendages 130 /i. Distance from tip to tip of perithecial outgrowths 



45-48 IX. 



On Pericallus cicinddoides MacLeary, Paris Museum, No 143, Ton- 

 gou, Java. On inferior surface of thorax. 



