Berkeley, in the Fungi of Cuba, spelled the name (carelessly, no 

 doubt) Cordyceps sphecophila, and under this erroneous spelling it 

 is compiled in Saccardo. 



It is one of the few foreign species well represented in the museums 

 of Europe, there being eight specimens at Kew and several in the 

 British Museum. There have been two collections distributed from 

 Europe, Saxony and Austria, but I know of no specimen from Britain 

 or the United States, although it probably does occur in our Southern 

 States. 



The Cordyceps always springs from the thorax of the host. In 

 each of the specimens from Mr. Ritchie there is a single club from 

 each host, though several specimens in Europe bear two clubs each. 

 Cordyceps australis, as illustrated by Moeller from Brazil, is un- 

 doubtedly the same species, and Cordyceps myrmecophila, dis- 

 tributed from Italy by Cesati, appears to be the same, although 

 smaller and growing on ants. 



ISARIA BARBERI. FROM A. H. RITCHIE, GOVERNMENT 

 ENTOMOLOGIST, OF JAMAICA. We have received a specimen 

 (Fig. 747), which appears to be the sterile stroma of an undeveloped 

 Cordyceps. It is stated that Giard, in Comp. Rendus. Soc. de Biol. 

 Paris, 1894, p. 823, gives an account, under 

 the name Isaria Barberi. of a parasite on 

 the caterpillar of Diatraea saccharalis, the 

 "moth-borer" of the West Indies. The 

 borer attacks the sugar cane and does much 

 . damage. Massee received from John R. 

 Bovell some material that he said was a 



Cordyceps and called it Cordyceps Barberi, on the theory that it was 

 the Cordyceps form of Isaria Barberi. The material now at Kew 

 from Mr. Bovell is only sterile strands such as Mr. Ritchie sends. 

 Massee published a figure under the name Cordyceps Barberi, which 

 has no possible resemblance to the material now at Kew, but repre- 

 sents a (probably imaginary) Cordyceps. Where he got the idea I do 

 not know, certainly not from the material now preserved at Kew 

 from Mr. Bovell. There is no evidence that these sterile strands 

 called Isaria Barberi, Giard, develop into a Cordyceps, nor that there 

 occurs a Cordyceps on this borer. Of course, that is on the grounds 

 that the published figure of the "Cordyceps" is not evidence. Nor 

 have these strands any Isaria spores, but the name Isaria Barberi 

 that has been applied to them will be convenient to designate them 

 until more is learned about them. 



RARE SPECIES OF FUNGI RECEIVED FROM 

 CORRESPONDENTS. 



TREMELLODENDRON CUXEATUM, FROM X. L. T. 

 NELSON, FLORIDA (Fig. 748). Pileus erect, tapering to the base 

 (2-3 cm. high), cut into a few cruciate segments. Surface pale, smooth. 

 Hymenium unilateral, pale yellow (Honey yellow of Ridgway), 



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