258 THAXTER. — MONOGRAPH OF THE LABOULBENIACE.E. 
size, brownish : upper tier smaller, shorter, and narrower than the middle one, consisting of from thirteen 
to fifteen hyaline cells: distally slightly concave, bearing a pair of perithecia, the appendages small, 
hyaline. Perithecium large and stout, straight, faintly brownish, slightly inflated, tapering distally to the 
-.early symmetrical truncate apex. Perithecia 120-135 X 30 pu Length to the tip of perithecium 250 a. 
Greatest length of receptacle 140 X 75 /i. 
On elytra of Philonthw sp. indet. British Museum, No. 379. Angola, Africa. 
This species is characterized by the relatively small distal tier and well developed middle tier which, 
however, produces no black fork-like prolongation, or a very short one. Although I should be at a loss 
Where to refer it, I should not, with my present knowledge of the genus, be inclined to describe it as 
a distinct species without examining more material: yet it appears to differ from any forms with which 
I I tllf/wlvt Ivrv ^^«f.«» 1 1 jl ' •lilt* m. m 
Dichomyces Cafianus Thaxter. Plate XXX, figs. 1-2. 
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XXXV, p. 425. April, 1900. 
Tinged with dull amber-brownish throughout, the perithecia darker. ' Basal cell nearly hyaline, 
the lower tier as in D. ru/gatus, the opacity involving in general but half of the upper (external) cells, 
he sep a of winch are jis.ble on the inner side, the median cell dark brown, its lower half or more opaque : 
the m,ddle tier consisting of typically thirteen cells, the margins unmodified and ending in a short external 
rounded projection, which does not extend beyond the base of the upper tier; the rather inconspicuous 
an hernlmm normally placed, concolorous, a single short appendage close behind it: the upper tier con- 
sisting of from nineteen to twenty-three, usually twenty-one, cells, forming an inverted crescent, the 
short, stout, bladder-like appendages arranged as in D. vrdgatns. Perithecia normally two in number, 
somewhat mf ated external y, nearly straight, slightly asymmetrical, rather stout, tapering to the bluntly 
C; ''''th!'' I 81 "" 8 45X4 - 5 * Peritheda 120-140X35-40 , Receptacle 200- 
2.50 X .00-1 m „ Total length to tip of perithecium 310-350 u. Appendages about 20 X 6 /,. 
Cafim pundiceps White, British Mus 
species 
furcifi 
Colenso, Natal, Africa. 
vvvr I-, m f0 v , . . . , < — -.,-— ,. m ( .,h,.iui us ucscriDea unaer that species (riatc 
n,™ whiS'l I" ' SmU , ^f tha " ' he ' argeSt indi ™'™ls «en in the abundant material of this 
Zd i ; r ';- a "" n K , The peri,hecia are reiat ! ** sm »"« -<• *• f*^ ■*** **». 
X i, , v T, ,"^ " x " 1 hign ' y deVel °I* d - The r rcse "' *«*■ b- » in-liv'duality 
fr7« , v tZ H , d r, r " ,e : and u alth ° U « h "> c tTO f <™° appear in general so closely allied" 
£2£Zn*i?£?12T ' C — ' ^"™ - cornpan,!. It ntnst he admitted, 
should be kept distinct. 
species 
Basal cell hyaline. 
Oichomvces Exrus Thaxter. Plate XXXT, figs. 1-2 
Pro • An, Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XXXV, p. 420. April, 1900. 
marginal 
close the base of 
the mthmdi. h„,e hr,™ nisi, S» *i , , "f"' " M " s or |,,lr "- v suffused with brownish ' 
< M-- i.i,r : n^ri? ,rr i?r; ongat '™ - f . *• t «« ■ •---« - ■ < 
u PI>e 
consisting of from thi'r,,».r. +~ «n 
distally overlapped bv the «tem.l „ ii 7- SUD ~™ e<llan oncs n <^'y triangular and for the most part 
typ,Vail v two, ^SmSJuSL ? , m ° rder and the basal cdl * of Ac P-***- Perithecia 
su*£ £^t£a£ s« if r " i nflated ' tapering * radua,,y to the 
cle 1 30-140 X 22 a. Total len^h to *.w fu - ^ Perithecla 130-140 X 22 p. Recepta- 
length to tip of perithecium 2.50 
On Philonthus xanthome™ Kraa Z R V i X ^ ft ' 
nmerus Kraatz., Bnt.sh Museum (Biologia Coll.), No. 751, San Andres, Vera 
