THAXTER. — NEW LABOULBENIACE^E. 431 



Amorphornyces obliqueseptata nov. sp. 



Male individual unknown. 



Female individual, straw colored tinged with amber brown, the recep- 

 tacle consisting of a very small basal cell and a short, broad, subbasal cell 

 bearing the very large perithecium and without appendages. The peri- 

 thecium broadly inflated at the base becoming gradually narrow distally, 

 the tip blunt asymmetrical ; the apex somewhat oblique, the asci and 

 spores filling the perithecium in great numbers, developed from a single 

 ascogenic cell. The spores obliquely septate 40 X 7 fx. Perithecium 

 200 X 55-CO ju. Receptacle without foot 35 X 27 fi. 



On the antennre of an undetermined staphilinid, British Museum, 

 No. 398, Ega, Amazon River. 



Teratomyces vulgaris nov. sp. 



Perithecia one to three in number, usually symmetrical and straight, 

 becoming clear purplish brown, often considerably inflated below and 

 conical above; the tip blunt or sometimes slightly pointed, the basal 

 cells variously elongated sometimes nearly as long as the perithecium 

 proper and often longer than the usually well developed stalk-cell. 

 Receptacle symmetrical, its basal cell nearly hyaline, the cell above it 

 tinged with reddish brown and somewhat larger, the third cell like the 

 subbasal, squarish and somewhat larger. Appendages nearly hyaline or 

 suffused, never deeply, with reddish brown, comparatively few in number, 

 rather stout and long in general, the curved beak-like terminations of 

 other species wholly wanting ; all the appendages or their primary 

 branches distinguished by a blackish brown basal septum, some, often 

 many of them distinguished by being closely septate above, the cells thus 

 formed producing a series of lateral outgrowths projecting obliquely up- 

 ward and superposed (the antheridia?) Perithecia 140-200 X 45-60//, 

 their basal cells 40-120 (i, the stalk-cell 35-126 X 25 /*. Receptacle 

 to base of appendages 70-100 p. Appendages (longest) 175 /x. Total 

 length to tip of perithecium 325-450 /jl. 



On QuediusfulgidusFabr., British Museum, No. 354, Kiel, Germany ; 

 on Q. fuliginosus Grav., British Museum, No. 355, Europe; on Q. trim- 

 cicolus Fair. (= rentralis Arag.), British Museum, No. 435, Great 

 Britain ; on Q. cruentus Oliv., British Museum, No. 422, Europe ; on 

 Quedius sp. indet., British Museum, No. 356, Canada; on Q. fidgidus 

 Fabr., Hope Coll., No. 216, Europe; on P/ulonthus? sp. iudet., British 

 Museum, No. 365, Hungary. 



