96 THIRTY-EIGHTH REPORT ON THE STaTE Museum. 
Appendicularia entomophila, 2. sp. 
Perithecia oval, brown, .0045 to .0055 in. long, .0035 to .co4 broad, 
tapering abruptly above into a long, pale, somewhat pointed, straight or 
slightly curved rostrum .o08 to .oog5 in. long and about one-tenth as 
broad, supported below by a pale pedicel .or2 to .or3 in. long, about 
one-tenth as broad ; pedicel two-septate, slightly thickened at the apex 
and bearing on one side, at the base of the perithecium, an oblong ap- 
pendage about .oo16 in. long; spores narrowly fusiform, pointed at 
each end, septate near the middle, colorless, .oo12 to .oo1r8 in. long, 
about one-tenth as broad, escaping at the apex of the rostrum. 
On small flies, Drosophila mgricornis, Nyack, Rockland county. 
March. Jtev. J. L. Zabriskie. 
Specimens of this minute but interesting fungus, beautifully mounted 
on microscopic slides, were sent me by Mr. Zabriskie, who discovered 
them on small flies in his cellarin March last. He writes that they ap- 
peared during the first warm days of Spring, but disappeared upon the 
return of colder weather a few days later. The fungus grows upon al- 
most any part of the body, the head, thorax, abdominal rings and occa- 
sionally on the cost of the wings, but most frequently on the legs. 
Attached to one leg sent me are seven well-developed specimens of the 
fungus and one or two imperfect ones. The whole fungus is about one- 
fortieth of an inch long, or less than one-third of a line. It would not, 
therefore, be readily seen by the untrained naked eye of an observer. 
The perithecium, which is of a beautiful amber-brown color in the 
mounted specimens, appears like an enlargement of the central part of 
the fungus, its long rostrum or beak extending above it nearly as far as 
its pedicel does below it. ‘The pedicel has one septum a little below the 
perithecium and another a little below the middle. At the apex it is 
slightly thickened, which gives it a somewhat clavate shape, and this 
enlargement is obscurely marked by short transverse and longitudinal 
septa or wrinkles, On one side, at the base of the perithecium is the 
singular erect appendage, the office of which is involved in obscurity. 
It is even and glabrous on the side next the perithecium, but elsewhere 
it is roughened by short ascending projections or serrations. 
The affinities of the fungus are not clear. The non-ascigerous peri- 
thecium, the long, slender rostrum and the free spores oozing out at its 
apex indicate a relationship to species of Spheronema (a genus of im- 
perfect fungi), but the delicate texture and filamentous pedicel are very 
unlike any thing in that genus. Possibly its true relationship may be 
with the Saprolegniz, but for our present purpose it is placed with the 
imperfect fungi. 
Spherographium hystricinum, Sace. 
Plate 8, figs. 5-7. 
Dead stems of Viburnum nudum. Caroga. July. 
This is Spheronema hystricinwm, Ellis, and is possibly a condition 
of some species of Cenangium. 
Sphzrographium lantanoidis, w. sp. 
Perithecia minute, terete or subconical, truncate at the apex, black ; 
spores subfiliform, curved or flexuous, slightly narrowed toward eXsh 
