3fi4 TIIAXTER. — MONOGRAPH OF THE LABOULBENIACEiE. 
variations ex pt in size. The additional material examined is as follows: Berlin Museum No. 972 on 
Oalerita femoralis Murr., Gaboon; No. 971, on G. attelaboides Fabr., Guinea. Paris Museum No. 10 
on (lulrrita sp., East Africa, British Museum No. 522 on G. femoralis Murr., E. Africa; No. 524 on 
(i. Ajricana Dej., Angola; No. 523 on G. interstitialis Dej., Sierra Leone. Fig. 10 of the accompanying 
Plate is drawn from material on an undetermined species of Galerita collected by Dr. O. F. Cooke in 
Liberia. 
Laboulbenia ORIENTALIS Thaxter. Plate LXV, fig. 4—5. 
Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XXXV, p. 191. Dec, 1899. 
Perithecium straight, its base free from and higher than the insertion of the appendages, straight to 
strongly recurved, becoming suffused with pale brownish; the tip blackish brown in normal specimens, 
well distinguished, with prominent lips (when curved, not abruptly distinguished, somewhat pointed, 
with ill defined lips), the translucent edges dirty brown. Receptacle hyaline or concolorous with the 
perithelium, sometimes becoming dark smoky brown; cell V often as large as cell IV, pushing the small 
iubtriangiilar unmodified insertion-cell outward so that it may become lateral, with its transverse diameter 
vertical, cell VII unusually large. Appendages consisting of an outer and an inner basal cell, the two 
free from one another except at the base, mostly several times as long as broad and overlapping slightly; 
the outer bearing an external row of superposed branches, usually seven or eight in number, formed by 
the successive proliferation of the tip of the basal cell, and separated from it by broadly blackened septa; 
the branches successively subdicliotomously branched several to eight or more times, the basal and some- 
times the subbasal cell often producing more than two branchlets (two to four) superposed in a single 
row. The inner appendage like the outer, the basal cell producing a single similar row of branches fewer 
(usually two to four) in number, overlapping those of the outer appendage and bearing antheridia in groups 
of from one to eight not characteristically grouped, the venter rather abruptly distinguished from the 
straight cylindrical purplish neck: the branches of both appendages directed outward, hyaline or distally 
reddish or purplish, constricted at the lower purplish septa. Perithecia (largest) 230 X 55 p; average 
170 X 40 fL Total length to tip of perithecium very variable, from 275 ft to 1 mm. Appendages 200- 
350 /i. Antheridia 10 X 4 /*. Spores 65 X 6.5 //. 
On Brachinus Chinens'is Chaud., Paris Museum, Nos. 58, 59; Manila, Philippine Islands, and Macao, 
China* Brit. Mus, Nos. 536 (bis), China. Hope Coll. No. 244, China. On Brachinus spp., Brit. 
Mus. Nos. 537, 539, 540, China and Philippine Islands, Berlin Mus., No. 994 on B. scotomedes Redt., 
Japan. Usually on inferior surface of thorax and prothorax. 
This fine species is a characteristic form, common on the larger species of Brachinus from the far 
East. Although it has not been seen on the numerous Brachini examined from intermediate stations, 
the form previously separated as L. Italica on B. exphdens from Italy, does not appear to be more than a 
variety. The species is decidedly variable in form, size and color, often abnormally bent, as in Fig. 5, 
or greatly elongated; becoming suffused in many cases till the perithecium is nearly opaque. The verti- 
cally elongated basal cell of its inner appendage lacks entirely the right and left development of branches 
which normally occurs in the genus, and usually overlaps the similarly developed basal cell of the outer 
appendage. 
forms 
pusilla, L. Japan 
these three 
pecies appe 
var. ITALICA Thaxter. Plate LXVI, figs. 9-10. 
L. Italica Thaxter. Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XXXV, p. 182. Dec, 1809. 
Perithelium free except at its base, rather short and stout, the upper half or third curved strongly 
outward, the tip large, sulcate, blackened, the lips coarse, nearly equal, subhyaline. Receptacle con- 
<-olorons with the perithecium, the base nearly hyaline, usually bent between cells I and II, short, abruptly 
expanded above cell II, the anterior margin straight above cell I. Appendages compact, the basal cells 
subtr.angular, the outer producing externally an oblique row of about four superposed branches from a 
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