228 THAXTER, 



main body, including basal cell region, 54 X 22 /x. Appendages 

 longest seen 50 /i. Axis of secondary receptacle to tip, longest, 60 /x. 

 Spread of bilobed basal cell 18-22 /x. 



On the elytra of a pale minute cr^'ptophagid closely allied to 

 Cryptophagvs. No. 2198, Aukland, N. Z. 



The material of this species is unfortunately very scanty, only one 

 indi\idual showing a fully developed perithecium. It is easily dis- 

 tinguished, however, from other known forms, by the character of its 

 perithecium and stalk, and especially by the almost furcate basal cell. 

 The basal cells of the primary branches appear to produce secondary 

 appendages, or perithecial rudiments, on both sides, and this seems 

 also to be true of the subbasal cell of the receptacle. 



Cucujomyces curtipes nov. sp. 



Basal cell tinged with brown, slightly broader than long, lying wholly 

 below the subbasal, which gives rise to a primary perithecium and 

 appendage: the latter tapering, shorter than the perithecium, the 

 basal cell slightly larger: stalk-cell of the perithecium tapering some- 

 what from extremity to base, less than twice as long as broad, hyaline, 

 its upper third or less opaque, distinguished below by a slight con- 

 striction, the region above the opacity, including the secondary stalk- 

 cell,, tinged with brown, abrupth- somewhat broader, with symmetri- 

 cally convex margins; the two smaller basal cells slightly prominent, 

 surrounding the base of the ascigerous cavity: perithecium relatively 

 large, uniformly tinged with dark brown, with a very faint indication 

 of mottling, almost symmetrically broafUy fusiform above the stalk- 

 cell; distally truncate, or slightly pointed, somewhat darker; except 

 the narrow hyaline distal margin, which is distinguished on either side 

 by a minute papilla. Secondary receptacles straight, or but slightly 

 recurved, diverging slightly downward, three of the basal cells usually 

 pro(hicing the normal primary branches, which are closely grouped 

 against the perithecium; the rest of the receptacle, the axis of which 

 consists of four or five cells, producing two to four straight diverging 

 branchlets, from one or both of the two terminal cells: the primary 

 branches hyaline, rather stout, tapering distally, often ending in an 

 antheridium, or with a subterminal short antheridial branchlet; the 

 basal cells of the inner, at least, producing rudimentary perithecia 

 which may develop. Spores 35 X 3.5 /jl. Perithecium, stalk 18 X 

 10 /i; body, inchuh'ng basal cell region, 60-06 X 22-28 ^u. Total 



