44 THAXTEK. 



cia 175 X 40-45 m; the two lip-appendages spreading 64 ^i. Ap- 

 pendages, maximum length, 150 /x. Receptacle 275-315 X 78-85 m- 

 Total length to tip of perithecium 390-425 /x. 



At the base of the anterior legs of PericaUus sp., No. 1408, Java 

 (Rouyer). 



A very striking species, most nearly allied to L. Javana, from which 

 it differs in the general form of its receptacle, which recalls that of 

 L. Texana, by its curled apical appendage, and much greater size, 

 as well as in other points. 



Laboulbenia manubriolata nov. sp. 



Variable, dirty straw-yellow throughout, or with brown shades; the 

 subbasal, or both the basal and subbasal cells becoming suffused with 

 blackish brown, in the type, and coarsely tuberculate. Basal portion 

 of the receptacle rather slender, curved, the curvature including 

 both the base of the subbasal cell and the whole basal cell, the latter 

 one half to one third as long as the former; cells III and VI usually 

 somewhat elongated, parallel, of about the same width; cell II longer, 

 usually slightly prominent distally, separated by a horizontal septum 

 from cell IV, which is often rather long and externally concave, bulging 

 slightly below the insertion-cell. Appendages hyaline or becoming 

 brownish, the basal cell of the outer relatively large and bearing a 

 distal outcurved prolongation, the rest of the appendage once or twice 

 branched; the branches somewhat tapering, rather slender, soon 

 broken; basal cell of the inner appendage smaller producing a short 

 branch on either side, usually furcate. Perithecium more than one 

 half to one third free, becoming tinged with brownish, rather long and 

 narrow, the tip relatively broad and slightly outcurved, blackened 

 below the hyaline pore. Perithecia 80-135 X 20-26 ijl. Appendages 

 unbroken, longest 150 pt.. Receptacle, to insertion-cell, 120-300 X 

 30^0 fjL. Total length to tip of perithecium 160-400 m- 



On various parts of a small Carabid allied to Tachys. No. 2081d 

 (Type) on elytra, Samarang, Java. No. 2093, Peradeniya, Ceylon. 



This species is most nearly allied to L. Tachyis, and L. maritima 

 and is distinguished by the handle-like protrusion of the basal cell of 

 the outer appendage. The species varies very greatly in size and color. 

 The form having the basal and subbasal cells blackened and coarsely 

 tuberculate, is taken as the type. The last mentioned character is 

 evidently not a result of age, since it appears in a few very young speci- 

 mens in which the perithecia have not begun to form. 



