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differentiated, straight or curved outward. Perithecia 90-100 • "J.'i-.'JO 

 a. Receptacle 300-335 p. Tota] length to tip of perithecium 365 l^u 

 x 40-45 a. 



On Stomonazus striaticoQh I>ej., British Museum No. 598, China. 

 ( >n <U tra. 



Ceratomyces Floridanus nov. sp. 



Purplish brown. Perithecium much as in C. confu&us, the outer mar- 

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

 wall cells, about twenty-four in number, rich re<l brown with a blackish 



tinge dis tally; tl uter wall cells, about nineteen in number below the 



perithecia] appendage abruptly and evenly paler, yellowish Btraw color «>r 

 faintly brownish; the twentieth <<-ll (about) forming the base <>f the 

 perithecia] 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 superpose, 1 cells almost wholly black and opaque 

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

 cell, which are pale straw yellow or amber colored, the series Burmounted 

 by two small llattened 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 ti 1 

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

 colored. Perithecia 300-325 x GO «. The appendage lo<> «. Recep- 

 tacle 150-160 x 75 (i. Appendage about 175-200 fi. 



On Tropisternus yhiber 1I1>. Eustis, Florida, Octoher. On margin 

 of left elytron. 



Ceratomyces cladophorus nov. sp. 



Perithecium very large with a slightly Bigmoid curvature, tin 1 lower 

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

 gin of the inflated portion strongly convex, the inner >lightly concave; 

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

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

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

 cell of the outer row of wall-cells forming the hasc of a suhterniiiial 



appendage which i-- curved upward, geniculate at its base, rather long 

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



