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Rhachomyces Glyptomeri nov. gp. 



Receptacle slender, dirty translucent brown, the main axis coi 

 of about seven cells (below the lower of the two perithecia which are 

 present in the type; : the appendages -lightly divergent, large and long, 

 opaque brown, flexed inward near their hyaline, somewhat more Blender 

 extremities, and extending beyond the tips of the perithelia. Perithecinm 

 short-stalked, -trongly curved, slightly inflated, hyaline, -oiled with brown- 

 ish, the dps well distinguished, blackish brown and obliquely truncate. 

 Perithecia, including basal and stalk-cells, about 185 / 41 /v.. Receptacle 

 to base of lower perithecinm 100 / 15 /*. Appendage-, long 60/* 



or more. 



On tip of abdomen of Glyptomerta cavicolus MulL Carniola, Austria. 

 Sharp Collection. No. 1111. 



Rhachomyces Dolicaontis nov. sp. 



Form elongate. Cells of the main axis of the receptacle- twenty to 

 thirty-five, more or less dirty brownish, banded with dark blackish br< 

 below, while the more slender proximal cells are usually opaque ; the axis 

 of nearly equal diameter throughout and nearly -traight above about the 

 eighth cell; each cell containing distally one, the axis cells two, roundish 

 or oblong brown bodies ''possibly thickenings of the walls; which 

 the stigmata of an insect larva. The appenda* .hat divergent, 



opaque, except a narrow upper hyaline margin, short, stiff and numerous ; 

 those external more slender, slightly curved and sharply pointed ; th 

 between somewhat stouter and longer, with -lightly recurved tips; th 

 about the base of the perithecium, which they do not conceal, but slightly 

 longer and few in number. Perithecinm -hort-stalked, slightly more 

 or less symmetrically inflated, dull brown, minutely punctate or irrarmlar, 

 not uniformly suffused ; the tip with darker shades, the blunt apex 

 hyaline. Spores 66 / 5 a. Perithecia 150-200 X 42-60/*, including 

 the basal and stalk-cells. Larger appendages 90-110 /t, smaller about 

 7o/y.. Total length 600-1100/*, the- average diameter about 30-35//. 

 On all parts of Dolicaon Lathrobioidei Casteln. Cape of Good If 

 Africa. Sharp Collection. No. 1146. Berlin Museum, No- 833 and 

 842. 



Sphaleromyces Quedionuchi nov- 



Perithecium relatively small, translucent, tinged with amber brown, 

 straight, very slightly almcrst symmetrically inflated ; the tip hardly dis- 



