164 BDING8 OP Till' AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



the insertion-cell bearing a .-ingle branch of usually three cells more or 

 less deeply tinged with brown, each of which ma} give rise distally on 

 the inner Bide to a Bhorl simple branchlet : the inner appenda^ ists 



of :i basal cell shorter and broader, which usually bears distally on either 

 Bide a branch, the basal cell of which usually bears distally two erect 

 simple branchlets, one of them Bometimes replaced by a Bingle la 

 long-necked brown antheridium. Perithecia, including the stalk (17/*), 

 150—155 x 30 jx. Total length to tip of perithecium 290-310 p; to inser- 

 tion-cell I'jO/x; greatest width 85 /<. Appendages, longer 200 /t. 



On Serrimargo guttiger Schaum, Bope Collection, No. 300, Sumatra; 

 on Miscelus Javanus King., Bope Collection, No. 303, Java; "ii M 

 ap., New Guinea, Paris Museum, No. 114. On elytra and inferior .-ur- 

 face of the prothorax. 



Laboulbenia Ceylonensis nov. sp. 



Perithecium wholly free, suffused with smoky brown, relatively Bhort 

 and small, Btraight, slightly inflated, somewhat abruptly contracted distally 

 td form the unusually large broad tip, the distal half of which i> hyaline, 



distinguished from the opaque black lower half by a clean cut line of 

 demarcation : the basal cells forming a Bhort Btout hyaline neck narrower 

 than the body of the perithecium. Receptacle elongate, of nearly the 

 same diameter throughout, the basal cell nearly hyaline, the cells above 

 it more or less deeply suffused with Bmokj In-own. cell V and the upper 

 portion of cells IV and VII hyaline, the distal Buffused portion obscurely 

 punctate. Outer appendage consisting of a basal cell deeply blackened 

 externally (the hlackened area continuous with the black insertion-cell 

 and involving also the external walls of the two cells immediately above 

 it) producing from one to three branches arrange,! antero-posteriorly, 

 which may he once or twice branched in a similar fashion, the branch! 

 long, slender, drooping, hyaline, some of the lower cell-; suffused with I 



dish In-own: the inner appendage consisting of a basal cell about hall' as 

 large as that of the outer, producing in the types a Bingle branch whi h 

 may lie once branched as in the outer. Perithecium 105 ■ 82 p. Total 

 length io tip of perithecium 445 /ij to insertion-cell 320 /u. Greatest 

 breadth 12 u. Appendage-, :; 10 p. 



On Hexagonia?, Ceylon, II. »11. No. 288. On elytra, 



Laboulbenia Chiriquensis nov. sp. 

 Perithecium yellowish brown, straight, the inner margin convex, the 



outer slightly Concave, tapering distally to the broad short hlackened tip, 



