74 Transactions British Mycological Society. 
The Cordyceps specimens referred to were found lying on the 
ground under stones by Professor H. B. Kirk whilst searching 
for Liopelma hamiltoni McCulloch. 
This adds another species to the Cordyceps of New Zealand 
and brings the total up to six, of which no less than five are 
endemic. The others, together with an account of their hosts, 
have been discussed by the writer in a former paper published 
in the Transactions of the N.Z. Institute, L11I, 372 (1921). 
I am indebted to Mr W. R. B. Oliver, of the Dominion 
Museum, Wellington, N.Z., for particulars regarding Stephen 
Island and its fauna and flora. 
Cordyceps Kirkit sp.nov. (Illus.). 
Conidial phase accompanying the perithecial, covering surface 
of host with a dense weft of mycelium, dingy cream, pruinose; 
conidia hyaline, elliptical, 3-6 = I-1°5 p. 
Stromata gregarious, growing from intersegmental membranes 
of the body, and from knee joints, bases of antennae, eyes, and 
on femurs, stipitate, short, up to 6 mm. long; stem up to 4mm. 
long, Imm. thick, dingy cream; fertile portion irregularly 
globose, ovate, or frequently angular, sometimes longitudinally 
grooved, I-5—2 x I:5 mm. diam., pallid brown. 
Perithecia superficial, elliptical or elongate-oblong, obtuse, 
densely packed around a sterile central axis, pallid brown, 
700-800 X 150-170 p, apex thickened up to 120 p, walls 20-25 pw 
thick. Asci hyaline, narrowly cylindrical, tapering from apex 
to base, terminating in a short clavate pedicel, not constricted 
below capitate apex, 165-210 x 5—6 w. Spores in spirally twisted 
fascicles in asci, filiform, same thickness throughout, multi- 
septate, 80-120 x I-I-5 yu, secondary spores not readily separ- 
able in asci, 6 x I-I°5 p. 
Host: Male and female imagines of Deinacrida rugosa Buller. 
Stephen Island, Cook Strait, New Zealand. H. B. Kirk. Jan. 
1922. } 
I have named this species in honour of the collector, Prof. 
H. B. Kirk, Victoria University College, Wellington, N.Z. 
NOTE ON THE Host. By J. G. Myers. 
Deinacrida rugosa Buller*. 
This is one of the largest New Zealand species of the inter- 
esting Orthopterous family STENOPELMATIDAE, which is well 
represented in this country by more than thirty species dis- 
tributed among twelve genera, and all characterised among 
other peculiarities by the complete absence of wings or elytra. 
* Trans. N.Z. Inst. 111, 36, 1871. 
