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differentiated, straight or curved outward. Perithecia 90-100 X 25-30 

 l^i. Receptacle 300-335 fi. Total leugth to tip of perithecium 365-400 

 X 40-45 |U. 



On Stomonaxus striaticollls Dej., Britisli Museum No. 593, China. 

 On elytra. 



Ceratomyces Floridanus nov. sp. 



Purplish brown. Perithecium much as iu G. confusus, the outer mar- 

 gin nearly straight, the inner somewhat convex, the two inner rows of 

 wall cells, about twenty-four in number, rich red brown with a blackish 

 tinge distally; the outer wall cells, about nineteen in number below the 

 perithecial appendage abruptly and evenly paler, yellowish straw color or 

 faintly brownish ; the twentieth cell (about) forming the base of the 

 perithecial appendage which is black, quite opaque, curved outward and 

 upward and geniculate near its base the inner margin of which is 

 abruptly distinguished (not continuous with the adjacent margin of the 

 tip as in C. confusus) ; the tip distally hyaline, the apex forming a 

 prominent symmetrical well defined rounded hyaline papilla. Recepta- 

 cle consisting of three superposed cells almost wholly black and opaque 

 except along their anterior margins and the distal margin of the upper 

 cell, which are pale sti'aw yellow or amber colored, the series surmounted 

 by two small flattened cells from which arise the perithecium and appen- 

 dage respectively. Appendage long tapering, consisting of seven or 

 eight superposed cells, clear reddish brown with a blackish tinge, 

 the inner margin as well as the distal portion yellowish or amber 

 colored. Perithecia 300-325 X 60 fx. The appendage 150 fi. Recep- 

 tacle 150-160 X 75 ju. Appendage about 175-200 ^. 



On Tropisternus glaber Hb, Eustis, Florida, October. On margin 

 of left elytron. 



Ceratomyces cladophorus nov. sp. 



Perithecium very large with a slightly sigmoid curvature, the lower 

 half conspicuously inflated above the rather narrow base, the outer mar- 

 gin of the inflated portion strongly convex, the inner slightly concave ; 

 the distal half or third more nearly isodiametric, bulging subterminally on 

 the inner side, the margin curving thence abruptly outward to the short 

 broad beak-like tip; the apex sometimes apiculate ; about the fortieth 

 cell of the outer row of wall-cells forming the base of a subterminal 

 appendage which is curved upward, geniculate at its base, rather long 

 slender and tapering, amber brown becoming blackish below ; the peri- 



