348 THAXTER. — MONOGRAPH 
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Laboulbenia Anaplogexii Thaxter. Plate LV, figs. 4-5. 
I'roc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XXXV, p. 156. Dec, 1899. 
Perithecium nearly hyaline or pale yellowish, becoming tinged with pale amber-brown, stout, free 
except at its base, the outer margin mostly straight, the inner convex; the tip rather small and abruptly 
distinguished, blackish except the hyaline lip-margins. Receptacle concolorous with the perithecium, 
rather short and stout, cell V relatively large, cell IV divided by transverse septa into from two to several 
superposed cells, usually extending upward beyond the insertion-cell, thus forming a blunt outgrowth 
external to it. Insertion-cell red-brown to claret-colored. Basal cells of the appendages nearly equal, 
each producing as a rule two similar branches antero-posteriorly, once or twice branched in the same 
plane, the branchlets rather elongate and slender, concolorous with the receptacle. Perithecium 140-155 
X 50-55 p. Spores 50 X 4.5 p. Total length to tip of perithecium 300-400 p, to insertion-cell 200- 
L'K) p, greatest width 50-70 /(. Appendages, longest 600 p, average 300 p. 
On the elytra of A na plogeni us circuincinctus Moh., Brit. Mus. Nos. 622 and 665, China: on Abaeetu* 
costatus Ceylon; Berlin Museum No. 903: A. rubripes, ? France, Berlin Museum No. 905; Abacetus sp. 
Bengal, Berlin Museum No. 904; on Agonndems pallipes Fabr., New England. Stenolophus fuliginosus 
Dej., Cambridge, Mass. Also immature material of apparently the same species on an undetermined 
Carabid, Paris Museum, No. 4, from Madagascar. 
Allide to L. poli/phaga, but distinguished by its pale yellow color and the tendency of cell IV to be- 
come septate and proliferous. Many specimens occur, however, in which the receptacle is normal. The 
antheridia are often greatly multiplied; but the numerous antheridial branches may be replaced, espe- 
cially in the Asiatic material, by numerous elongate sterile branches. No. 665, on Anaplogenius from 
China, has been taken as the ty|>e (fig. 4). A remarkably well developed form from the Cambridge 
region is represented in fig. 5. The species resembles L. Anchonodrri and L. Plafi/pw.fopi in having 
a red insertion-cell. 
LabOULBENIA verrucosa Thaxter. Plate LVI, fig. 16. 
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XXXV, p. 209. Dec, 1899. 
IVritheeium becoming deeply suffused with smoky brown, straight, the line of demarcation between 
the subterminal and subbasal wall-cells indicated by a more or less well defined ridge forming a rather 
prominent external hunch in this region, above which the perithecium is abruptly contracted, almost at 
right angles in the type, below the rather narrow nearly erect tip, the lip-cells black below, with the broadly 
hyaline edges turned obliquely outward. Receptacle dirty yellow-brown, becoming more or less suffused 
with smoky brown, especially the two basal cells, and covered with irregular wart-like prominences which 
are more or less definitely arranged in transverse rows. Appendages of ordinary type, the outer once to 
twice branched, the inner consisting of a smaller basal cell giving rise on either side to single branches 
which may be from once to three times branched; all the branches divergent, pale dirty yellowish with 
brown shades above the lower septa. lVritheeia 1 50- 1 70 X 45-50 ft. Total length to tip of perithecium 
550-610 p; to insertion-cell 130-480 p. Appendages (longest) 400 p. 
On the elytra of a carabid allied to Platynw, Hope Coll. No. 342 (without label) and U. S. Nat. Mu- 
seum, No. 7, Mt. Coffee, Liberia, Africa. 
The specimens from Mt. Coffee are paler than those from the Hope Collection, the perithecium 
being - oncolorous with the dirty amber receptacle, the subterminal ridge and external hunch alone being- 
darker colored. The species is nearly allied to some large forms of L. flageltafa. Its corrugated surface 
recalls L. notatn, but the two are not nearly allied. 
ABOULBENIA SPIRALIS 
5. Am. Acad Arts anrl S< 
Plate LVIII, fig. 1. 
Dec, 1899. 
Perithecium one half to one third (sometimes only the tip), free from the receptacle, dark dull amber- 
brown with dirty brown suffusions, rather stout, the tip moderately well distinguished, rather short and 
