.MONOGKAril OP THE LABOULBEMACK-E. 301 
Giard has kindlv called to mv notice a reference by Gerkc in fhc Wlcuer En!oniolt)irisi:lie 
Zeitung to a ])ai'asite on Droauj^flnJa finiehriSy found h)' liiin in June, 1877. 'J'hough Ins figure is 
somcvvliat insufficient, it is more than prohalile that tlio jilnnt wliich he describes is identical 
with the present species. The figures are cvidoutly drawn from dried and shrivellod ppoclmen?!, 
and no appendage is visible, although otherwise they corrosj)0)ul csscutially with the American 
form. 
Professor Peck, in his oi'iginal description, represents the si)ores as divided by a median sep- 
tum, but in the material examined they appear to be of tlio \isual tyi)e as represented in fig. 8. 
The host occurs in cellars and similar situations, wliere it is coinuiunly found lioveriiig over 
decaying fruit, etc. 
StigmatoxMYCEs vfrescens Thaxter. Plate VJJI, figs. 1-4. 
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts aud Sci. Vol. XIX, p. 106 ; /A siteromt/rrs rirrsons Thnxfor, 1. c. Vol. XXIV, p. 264. 
Color yellowish green. Perithccium large, clavatc or suh-rlavate, constricfed more or less 
prominently at the transverse septa between its successive wall-cells, straight on the inner side, 
rounded externally; the distal scries of wall-cells forming the tip, the small terminal cells tluis 
formed producing from four to eight appendages ; the outer short or ohsolctc, tlic inner consist- 
ing of two antero-posterior wedge-sliaped prominences, between which lies the pore ; and two 
much longer, divergent, tapering, sometimes septate, lateral a])[>endages. ^rhe ascogenic cell 
perhaps solitary (?), becoming pushed down between the proper basal cells of the perilheclum, 
which thus appears to have five sets of wall-cells. Aj^pcndage abruptly constricted at its base, 
the antheridial cells, usually five in number, distinct, excopt at the base. Receptacle sharply 
pointed below, small, sub-triangular, consisting of a basal cell and two smaller terminal cells, 
the posterior smaller bearing the appendage, the anterior the stalk cell of the perithecium, 
which equals or exceeds the main body of the receptacle in size. Spores, 65 x 6/x. Peritljecia, 
190-275 X 66 fi; its longer terminal appendages, 40-45 ft. Receptacle, 75 x 80 /x. Antheridial 
a^jpcndagc, 75 x V6 fx. ^otal length to tip of perithccium, 300-400 /x. 
On Chilocorus hivulneriis Muls., Califoinia. 
T am greatly indebted to Mr. D. W. Coquillct for two 8j>eeimt^ns of the above host taten at 
Los Angeles, which bear the parasite on the legs and on the lower surface of the abdomen ; 
where, owing to its large size and contrasting color, it is readily seen with the naked eye- A 
further knowledge of the family shows that the characters rtdied upon for disfinguishing the 
genus Ilespcromyccs have merely a specific significance; and that while the number of wall-cells 
of the perithecium appears to be greater than in the other species of Stigmatomyces, they are 
in reality the same, as indicated in the above description. The receptacle, moreover, may with- 
out difficulty be reduced to the same type, although from the obliquity of the septa and some- 
what different relative position of its cells, the insertion of the appendage might at first sight 
seem abnormal. The spores SQmetimes present a peculiar appearance, through a local inflation 
of their smaller sesment 
