io8 Transactions British Mycological Society. 



STUDIES IN ENTOMOGENOUS FUNGI. 



(With Plate II and five figures in text.) 



III. TORRUBIELLA. 



By T. Fetch, B.A.,B.Sc. 



The genus Torrubiella was founded by Boudier in Revue 

 Mycologique, vii (1885), pp. 226-7, the following generic de- 

 scription being given. 



Torrubiella Bond. Perithecia superficial, sessile, on a thin, 

 byssoid, membranous stroma, not borne on a clava. Paraphyses 

 conspicuous, very slender, thickened at the apex. Other details 

 as in the entomogenous species of Cordyceps. 



The type specimen was collected on a spider at Montmorency 

 in France. It was described as: 



Torrubiella aranicida Bond. Perithecia elongated-conoid, sub- 

 flexuose, o-65-o-70 mm. high, 0-3-0-35 mm. diam., smooth, 

 ochraceous or ochraceous orange, scattered or caespitose, on a 

 thin, white, byssoid stroma. Paraphyses conspicuous, as long 

 as the asci, very slender, apex clavate and 3/x thick. Asci 

 linear, very long, eight-spored, 330-350 x 5-6 /x, apex rounded 

 and not swollen; ascospores filiform, very slender, as long as 

 or longer than the asci, 300-400 x 0-5-2 /a, obscurely septate 

 and granular. 



Since 1885, the following species have been added to the 

 genus : 



Torrubiella tomentosa Pat. in Bull. Soc. Myc. France, viii 

 (1892), p 133 On an insect (spider?) on a leaf, Ecuador. Dr 

 Patouillard informs me that this species is on a coccid. 



T. rubra Pat. and Lagh., op. cit. ix (1893), p. 134. On a coccid 

 on Melastoma and Solanum, Ecuador. 



T. luteorostrata Zimm. in Centralb. f. Bakt. Abt. 2, vii (1901), 

 p. 872. On a coccid, Buitenzorg, Java. 



T. rostrata P. Henn. in Hedwigia (1902), p. 167. On a moth, 

 South America. 



T. ochracea Pat. in Bull. Soc. Myc. France, xxii (1906), p. 58. 

 On a Lepidopteron, Papeenoo, Tahiti. 



T. brunnea v. Keissl. in Ann. Myc. vii (1909), p. 292. On a 

 coccid on leaves of Melicope, Upolu, C. Rechinger, 5274 (Herb. 

 Mus. Palat. Vindob.). 



T. sericicola v. Hohnel in Sitz. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, cxviii, 

 Abt. I (1909), p. 302. On cocoons of a moth, Cricula fenestrata 

 Illf., Buitenzorg, Java. 



T. Lecanii Johnst. in Mem. Soc. Cubana Hist. Nat. "Felipe 



