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very thick, forming ao erect tapering bluntly pointed terminal appenda 



:it the ba i which the papillate apex of tin- lip-cells projects on the 



right side; the fifth cell of the external row of wall-cells growing out 

 to form a subterminal slender appendage, eight-celled in the type, distally 

 attenuated, its terminal cell bearing one or two Blender branches. Ap- 

 pendages consisting of from four i" five Buperposed c< lis, the distal ones 

 append iculate (the branches mostly broken). Perithecium l^i x -in,,. 

 The appendage without branches 82^, the branches 150 /u; the rostrate 

 terminal cell 50 X 17 u (al base). Reo ptacle 85 18 u. Spores about 

 7u x 3.~> /.i. Appendage, broken, without branches 70 u. 



On Berosw Bp. indet. Eustis, Florida, October. On the inferior 

 surface of abdomen and thorax. 



Ceratornyces Californicus nor. sp. 



Allied to C camptosporit8. Amber brown. Receptacle relatively 

 Blender, consisting of three small Buperposed cells surmounted by two 

 similar cells which form the base of the appendage and perithecium ; the 

 foot small, normal. Perithecium Bhort and stout, from two to three 

 times as broad distally as at the base; about twenty cells in each of the 

 inner rows of wall cells, the inner margin convex, distally abruptly bent 

 inward to the short beak-like apex ; the conformation of the tip, the inner 

 margin of which is thus horizontal or even oblique, resembling that <>| 

 O. ornithocephalus ; about the eighteenth cell of one of the outer rows 

 forming the base of the usually straight rather n motely Beptate peritl 

 cial appendage which commonly diverges at an angle of forty-five degrees 

 or even al right angles. Appendage small and slender (the extremities 

 broken in the types) becoming lateral in position. Perithecia 185—200 

 X (base) 30-40 (distal portion) 70-85 p. Receptacle 50-70 • 2bp. 

 Total length to tip of perithecium 250— 300 ft. 



On Tropistemus dorsalis Brulle*. California. On the left anterior 

 inferior angle of the. prothorax. 



Ceratornyces ornithocephalus nov. sp. 



Allied to O. furcatits. Hyaline or becoming more or less Buffused 

 with amber brownish. Perithecium relatively rather Btnall, the ex- 

 ternal margin somewhat concave, the inner convex, the tour distal 

 cells of the eight external wall-cells rather abruptly enlarged, their ex- 

 ternal walls much thickened and forming an irregularly rounded crest- 

 like prominence, the distal half of the margin of which becomes abruptly 



