THAXTER. — MOXOGRAPII OF THE LABOULBENIA* . .111 
to that of the outer, and producing usually two simple or once branched branches plaml antrro-postcri- 
orly, the ultimate branchlets in both appendages elongate, tapering slightly dbtally, hyaline. lVriih. ia 
95-105 X 35-40 
pendages, longest 300 //. 
to insertion-cell 120 n. Ap- 
On Anisodartt/lus tricuspid at us A. Mor., Paris Museum, No. 191 M n-Pin, (China?). Margin 
of the elytra. 
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the two. The appendages are practically identical with those of%the latter spei ies, while (he |m ritbectum 
though peculiar for the irregular bulging of its very blunt tip, is more lik< the former. The position of 
growth is the same in all three species and the hosts are nearly allied. 
Laboulbenia obtusa Thaxter. Plate LIY, fig. 1. 
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and ScL, Vol. XXXV. p. 189. I ' -., 18W. 
Perithecium about three fourths free, becoming opaque, black-brown, ven stout, the outer margin 
slightly and more or less symmetrically convex, the inner bulging prominently distalh and curved abruptly 
to the brown blunt rounded hardly differentiated apex, the pore external. Receptacle short cell VI 
together with the basal cells of the perithecium concolorous with the latter, becoming indistinguishable 
cell VI extending to or towards the base of cell II, which is mostly suffused above, hyaline and contra g 
below as is cell I; cells III and IV with median brown shades. Insertion-cell black-brow n. Append hj 
hyaline becoming tinged with brown, the outer basal cell twice as long as th< inner, each bearing one to 
two branches which form a compact group curved toward and against the perithecium, Perithecium 
120 X 05 /t. Total length to tip of perithecium, average 260 /*; to in rtioD-oll 175 fL App -dap 
broken, 35 a. 
On Aerogcnidion Bcdcli Tsch., Paris Museum, No. 198, Mon-Pin, (China I. On left inferior 
margin of prothorax. 
pal 
lifters from both in the .nn 
of its stout opaque perithecium. In perfect specimens the appendages are no doubt longer than they 
flip ', as may be inferred 
from the fact that they are strongly curved towards the perithecium. 
Laboulbenia fiufera Thaxter. 
Specimens apparently identical with the American material have been obtained Iron, the Paris Col- 
lection No. 12, on llarpalus crncm from Selenga, Siberia; and in the British Museum No. 617 on Pang** 
sp, from Germany. The allied Chinese forms /,. obhua, L intermedia and L. Srogmtdh have I 
referred to above. All of these forms occur on the margin of the elytron, near the middle and toward 
the base. 
Laboulbenia Casxom m Thaxter. 
polyph 
This species appears to be separable trom lorms 01 /,. /«»!,,„„„,„ »™ - * 
by its subcorneal perithecium, simple outer appendage, and more or less copio ly branched inner ap- 
pendage. Although it is not a well characterized species, it nema best to keep 4 Aatmct, at east pro- 
visionally. The additional material examined is as follows. British Museum, No, W0 on Ophumea 
sp., Adelaide, Australia; No. 499 on Ophionea cyanorrphala labr., I been, India; No. 50 * « """"" 
Pemuyhanica Linn., Ohio. Hope Collection; No. 270 on Hamathes degans Vwm India, Wo. <CTo, 
etrias 
Drom 11 
Kittery 
No. 277 on D. imperial** Mey. f no locality; No. 346 (bis) 
England The type form has also been collect! again l>y my -If mCmun* 
It should be noted that the hosts above enumerated are for the rood part nearly 
allied. 
