290 THAXTER. — MONOGRAPH OF THE LABOULBENIACEJS. 
Bed, blunt. Primary receptacle 25 X 3 p.. Secondary receptacle 1G X 13 /i. Perithecium 80-90 X 
16 ". Spores about 18 X 2 //. 
( )n the antennae of a species of Anaplrrta allied to A. Dohrinana, collected under stones along the 
margin of a stream near Caracas, Venezuela, by Dr. A. F. Blakeslee. 
This species i most nearly allied to //. EctobuB and occurs on a related host. The male individual 
sometimes produces a short branch from the subbasal cell which gives rise to a small secondary receptacle 
(or perhaps in some individuals to two, through furcation), bearing small tufts of antheridia] branches. 
In the female the perithecia are very regularly and symmetrically paired as shown in fig. 9, the secondary 
receptacles, in marked contrast to those of IL Ectobice, being less well developed than in any other species. 
* 
Heepomyces toriicularis Thaxter. Plate XL, figs. 18-22. 
Proc. Am. Acad Arts and Sei., Vol. XXXVIII, p. 15. June, 1C02. 
Male individual minute, consisting of four superposed cells, the three upper subequal, nearly round, 
constricted at the septa, the distal one terminated by a short bluntly pointed appendage resembling a 
minute foot, which is commonly turned to one side by the development laterally from the same cell of a 
ingle slender antheridium. Total length 18 X 5 p. The antheridium about 35 p. 
Female individual. Primary receptacle consisting of two superposed cells terminated by a single 
abruptly smaller sterile cell, which is slightly longer than broad and is terminated by a bluntly pointed 
appendage similar to that of the male, but larger; the subbasal cell much enlarged, somewhat inflated, 
be fertile branch at once furcate so that two secondary receptacles are formed symmetrically placed on 
either side of and just below the primary receptacle. Secondary receptacles distinctly yellowish exter- 
nally, consisting of a nearly horizontal series of about ten sterile cells, very narrow from the great 
elongation of their transverse axes which are vertical in position, and so arranged as to cover more or 
less completely the single fertile cell, which is subtriangular and gives rise to a solitary perithecium. 
Base of the perithecium nearly as broad as the secondary receptacle, forming a short stout neck: 
perithecium relatively huge, the aseigerous portion somewhat longer than the distal part, very slightly 
inflated, nearly isodiametric, the base of the trichogyne persistent as a rather conspicuous hyaline 
projection between it and the distal part which is but slightly narrower, hardly tapering, the" large 
lateral cells thick-walled, the rows similar on either side and terminating in large incurved tapering 
bluntly pointed brownish-yellow unicellular projections, which surmount the perithecium like a pair of 
mandibles, the inner somewhat shorter and straighter: the short, pointed apex included between their 
bases ami bent slightly inward. Spores about 18 X 2 p. Perithecia including base 200 X 36 p; the 
terminal projections, longer, 35 p. 
rile terminal cell 20 X 7 p. Total length to tip of perithecium 220-250 p 
On antenna- of a wingless roach, Mauritius (?); Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 1353. 
1 his curious torin is readilv rlistinmuak^ k.r :*« ui__ • i • , • , .. , 
20-35//. Primary receptacle including 
is terminated 
tppearance seen in no other species. 
j tfi d 
tricusp 
u Vv,/o/^v, ; but lacks the third spinous process seen in these species, and is otherwise widely different. 
In all the speeunens examined the secondary receptacles are regularly paired as in fig. IS. 
Herpomtces ran tspidatus Thaxter. Plate XL, figs. 11-17 
., , • ,. ., ; ,rOC - A,T, - Acad -Artsa n dSci.,Vol.XXXVJII.p.l7. June, 1!K)2. 
^JZ^U 1 VU rf ^ deVe,0pe(1 ' the tCrminal cel1 ™» d ^ apiculate, but as a rule soon indis- 
n m ^ i Lt ' ^" 1 1 I 1 <)f , the CCllS bd0W ' the sim P le for ™ Placing few antheridia, although 
;:<;:^^ <-. w ~ <* ta app^d <* 
termin 
1 otal length to tips of antheridia 75 p. 
Female hulMual P rimaiy receptade smaJlj surmounted by ^ ^^ ^ CQmtrM at the 
