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MONOGRAPH OF THE LABOULBEXJACE^. 9f)7 
Spores fusiform, ascptate, containhig several large oil globules, about 87xG/x Pcrithccia 
100x30-33/*. Total length, 130-138 /t. 
On Falagria dissecta Er., Waverly, Mass., and Kittcrv Point, Maine. 
This species is hy no means uncommon on tlic lower siii-faee of the abdomen, where its large 
projecting peritliecia are readily seen at maturity. It also occurs on the upper surface of the 
thorax and head and more rarely on the legs and tbe u].pcr surface of the abdomen. It is sub- 
ject to little variation, figs. 17 and 18 representing almost the extremes of size j although 
forms sometimes occur sliglitly larger than that represented in fig. 17. 
AMORpnoMYCES FLOiiiDANUs, Thaxter. Phate V, fig. 30 
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci. Vol. XXVIII, p. 159. 
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sponding to the ascigerous side of the perithecinm) a somewliat indurated fu'ojeotinn which 
extends upward nearly to the base of the periJhecium. Perithccium very largo, externally 
rounded and tapering considerably to the blunt apex, the basal colls, one of which is as large as 
the rest of the receptacle, forming a short st;ilk. Spores once-scptatc about ZO x B fi. Perithc- 
cium, 150 X 52 /i. Receptacle (including stalk-cells of perithccium) 62 /i long. 
On Bledius hasalis Lee, Florida. 
Two specimens of this species wore found on the abdomen of a single specimen of its host in 
the Le Conte collection of Staphylinidae. As above stated it is almost certainly not an Amor- 
phomyces ; yet since the material is not sufficient to form the basis of a new generic diagnosis 
in the absence of a knowledge of the male sexual organs, it is here retained under the original 
name until further information can be obtained concerning it. It differs from Amorpliomyces 
in having what appears to be a two-ccllcd receptacle, the sub-basal cell very small and producing 
on one side a free projection (seen at the right in fig. 30), which is probably an antheridiuml 
whctlicr simple or compound can hardly be determined definitely ; while from the other side 
rises the stalked perithecinm, which is larger in proportion to the remainder of the plant than 
in any other known form. The spores are distinctly once-septate, as seen within the perithecium, 
and the large ascogcnic cell appears to be solitary. 
HELMLXTIIOPIIANA Peyritsch. Plate YITI, fig. 10 (after Peyritsch). 
Sitz. d. Wien. Acad. LXVIII, p. 250 (1873) ; Arthrorlynchts Kolenati, Wiener Entomol. Monntschrift, I (1857), p. 66. 
" Ein gestreckter gegliedcrter, mit spitzigen Fortsatzen versehener Zweig, scheinbar scitlich 
zwischen 1. und 2. Triigerzelle des Peritheciums inserirt ; Perithccium mit einem Baueh- und 
Halstheil versehen, der Poi'us desselben wird von einem mchrlappigcn Kronchen umgebcn." 
(Peyritsch 1. c.) 
This genus, of which I have seen no specimens, appears to be clearly separated from the 
allied Stigmatomyccs through the presence of four instead of one vertical row of anthcridial 
cells in its appendage. As far as can be determined from the figures, the appendage and the 
