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face, even of the head, is quite as opaque as in that species. 
Mandibles and cheeks coarsely punctuate. Thorax in profile 
like that of the typical hyattii, except that the basal surface of 
the epinotum has a transverse demas oa behind when seen in 
profile. 
More material of this form may show that it is to be regarded 
as a distinct species. 
Female. Length, 7.5—8 mm. 
Presenting the “female of C. marginatus, var. discolor Buckley. 
Head longer than broad, with nearly straight posterior border 
and prominent posterior angles; cheeks converging in front 
and distinctly coneave. Mandibles 5-toothed. Whole body 
more shining than in discolor, though it is throughout dis- 
tinetly shagreened. The mandibles, cheeks and front are 
coarsely and evenly punctuate. Body and appendages yellow- 
ish red; teeth of mandibles, anterior edge of clypeus and 
cheeks, scutellum, mesonotum, a brand across the posterior 
portion of the first and second gastric segments, and the re- 
mainder of the gaster, all black. All the gastric segments are 
edged with yellow. There is a more or less distinct brown 
cloud on the antero-median and, in one of the specimens, also 
on either lateral surface, of the mesonotum. Wings yellowish 
gray with brownish yellow veins. 
Described from two mediewe and two female specimens. 
NEW FUNGI FROM CATALINA ISLAND. 
By J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart. 
The following forms are recognized in the collection mad3 by 
Professor and Mrs. C. F. Baker, at Catalina Island: 
Briardia nigerrima E. & E. n. sp. 
On Rhus laurina, Catalina Island, off the coast of Southern 
California, March, 1904 (C. F. Baker, No. 4038). 
Apothecia gregarious, erumpent between the fibres of the 
bleached, weather-beaten wood, 1-4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, 
black. Asci at first subglobose, then obovate-oblong, 40x12-15, 
8-s spored. Sporidia irregularly crowded, oblong-clavate, hya- 
line, becoming brown, guttulate, 8-12x3-4 u, continuous. Para- 
physes branched above, and bearing a black epithecium com- 
posed of subglobosa, brown (becoming black) conidia, indis- 
tinctly submuriform, seoatate, 6-7 u in diameter. 
Phenangium spheroides EH. & E. n. sp. 
On bleached wood of Rhamnus and of Rhus laurina, at 
Avalon, Catalina Island. California (C. F. Baker, Nos. 4039 and 
4045). 
Gregarious; apothecia round, black, smooth, globose at first, 
becoming depressed obeconical with the dise plane or concave 
