THAXTER. — NEW LABOULBENIACE.E. 191 



leDgth to tip of perithecium 165 ^ ; to insertion-cell 85—100 ^ ; width 40 (i. 

 Appendages, longest 200 ,u. 



On Ophonus obscurus Fabr., 0. brevicollis Dej., O. azureus Fabr., 

 Harpalus neglectus Dej., H. serripes Quensel, H. sulpkuripes Germ., 

 // tardus Fanz., in Florence Museum collection of Italian Coleoptera. 

 On Ophonus sp.?, Iuterlaken, Switzerland. On Ophonus sp., Paris Mu- 

 seum, No. 37, Algeria. On elytra, inferior thorax aud prothorax, and 

 abdomen. 



Laboulbenia Orectochili nov. sp. 



Perithecium free except at the base, more or less evenly suffused with 

 smoky brown, with a subtermiual external blackish patch, nearly sym- 

 metrical and straight, slightly inflated, tapering gradually to the hyaline tip 

 which is surmounted by a median straight pointed purplish tooth-like pro- 

 jection formed by the outgrowth of one of the lip-cells; the inner lip-cells 

 forming a small hyaline or partly purplish lateral papilla. Receptacle elon- 

 gate, cells I and II stout, the latter slightly if at all narrower distally, cells 

 IV and V and the basal cells of the perithecium darker brown, the rest 

 very pale yellowish or purplish brown, finely punctate, the dots scarcely 

 visible except in the more deeply suffused areas. The insertion-cell 

 broad, blackened, extending completely across the distal margins of cells 

 IV and V. Appendages consisting of an inner and outer basal cell, 

 giving rise in all to from five to ten erect subcorneal prominences, ench 

 of which becomes separated as the basal cell of a very short two-celled 

 branch of which only a blackened basal portion remains in mature speci- 

 mens, the rounded purplish slightly inflated terminal portion of the 

 upper cell usually breaking off above its blackened slightly constricted 

 basal half. Of the branches that borne by the protuberance first formed 

 from the outer basal cell is always somewhat larger and more prominent 

 than the rest. Perithecia 190 x 59 /.i. Total length to tip of perithecium 

 475-680 fi ; to insertion-cell 400-550 u. 



On Orectochilus cordatus Reg., Paris No. 99, " Asia." On elytra. 



Laboulbenia orientalis nov. sp. 



Perithecium straight, its base free from and higher than the insertion 

 of the appendages, straight to strongly recurved, becoming suffused with 

 pale brownish ; the tip blackish brown in normal specimens, well dis- 

 tinguished, with prominent lips (when curved, not abruptly distinguished, 

 somewhat pointed, with ill defined lips), the translucent edges dirty brown. 

 Receptacle hyaline or concolorous with the perithecium, sometimes be- 



