THAXTER. — MONOGRAPH OF III-; LABOULBEXIACK.E. -If) 
by the insertion-cell. Apart from slight differences in the depth of the suffusions, the Javan, « liinev <l 
Japanese material shows no variations worthy of note. Fig. 11 represents an individual fi m (Whin 
China, Paris Museum, No. 9, which is taken as the Type, 
Laboulbenia Xebbi Peyr, 
Specimens of this species were obtained in the British Museum > >. 45S on Nebi i (hjUrnhali Sell 
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li. in 
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Laboulbenia vulgaris Peyritsch. 
The varieties of this species and its near allies on species of Bembidtum arc in net -I oi thorough n - 
vision and illustration, which I have deferred until it becomes po ible to examine the large amount of 
material which I have collected in South America and elsewhere, hut which is not yet available f«»r udy. 
It may be mentioned here, however, that material from Greece, Italy, the ('a nark India. Japan and the 
Hawaiian Islands has been obtained from the European Collections. 
Laboulbenia insularis Thaxter. Plate IAI, figs. 1 2. 
Proe. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XXXV, p. 181. I>. 18M. 
Perithecium one third or more free, inflated, dark brown, becoming almost opaque, taperinj to the 
rather pointed apex, the lip-edges hyaline. Receptacle elongate, the distal portion eoncotoroo* with the 
perithecium; cell I suffused with brown above and below, cell II hyaline except tor a brown wffusion at 
its base and distal end. Outer appendage consisting of I large robconieal basal cell becoming .lark brow n 
and bearing terminally a single short erect slender branch, the two basal cells of which an -lark blackish 
brown, the septa usually oblique; the distal cell somewhat longer than the rest of the append ;e, hyaliw 
and soon broken. The inner appendage consisting of a very small basal cell, usually producing a single 
short hyaline branch about as long as that of the outer appendage. lVrith. mm N5- 95 X 10 ft. I otal 
length to tip of perithecium 215-275 /<; to insertion-cell 200 250 n. Appendage longest 100 /;. 
On Bembldium .wblhnafum Woll., and B. Gmyanum Woll., Brit. Mas. No. B», 1 rtand of St. Helena. 
This species, though most nearly allied to L. vulgar!*, differs constantly from formsol thai species m 
the character of its appendages; the outer short, slender, more or less indurated, ample, externally suf- 
fused with rich brown, is partly broken in all the adult individuals examined, but » shown from you,, 
individuals, fig. 2, to be but slightly longer than is represented in fig. I. 
L\BOULBEMA PERPENDICULARS Thaxter. 
A few specimens of a form not separable from this species wen- found on the legs of Bmhitim 
aUantiCum Woll. from Tcneriffe: British Mus., No. 420. 
Laboulbenia subtekkanea Thaxter. 
The different forms which seem refe-We to this ,»..* m «* P-P*** -| ** £ J 
European eaves, which are sehlon, very like the striking Amenean ,v,„~l..nn, ye* „,r,. > .1 
to some of its variations to warrant a specific separation. 
i • o xi :±: ,1 U« « fs^m illustrate. 1 01 
Tl 
14-15 which, thougl 
are not infrequently parasitized by a form ulustrated on i .a e i.. . ■, -o . 
different from the types of this species, are so nearly identical wrth its .m«t. , 
wise to separate thfm at present. This variety is charactered by tl, po» on > ; 
1. s elongatt. 
wise to separate them at present. 
rigid, stiff outer appendage, the lower ecus m wauuu « . j. ~~ — ^ 
of variable diameter, or distally somewhat enlarged as m the t,o fig ures r 
proaches some forms of I, polyfhaga, although it is always suffictentl «< • ^ 
On several European speeies of the staphylinid genus &**» have a ; n d u t ^ ^ 
to separate satisfactorily from the varieties above mentioned, although it 
