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coarsely granular-reticulate. The deep black foot is usually small 

 and clearly distinguished. In C. stipatus, however, it forms a 

 more extensive black crust, a portion of which, only, is shown in 

 fig, 17, from which the crowded filaments arise in a mass. Three 

 species are here distinguished, and there are one or two other 

 Javan forms in the material at hand, which may prove to be distinct, 

 and another from the Philippines. 



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Chantransiopsis decumbens, nov. sp. — Plate XVIII, figs. 19-21 

 Filaments divergent or decumbent, flexed or reflexed, colorless, 



simule or once to several times 



terminal 



lets: which are more remo 



to their 



hich are verv rarelv more 



spiral. Spores long-elliptical or subpiriform, 30-3 5 X 9-1 1 M- Total 

 length of branches about 230 ju, the longest 350 /x, with an average 

 diameter of about 6 \x. 



On the inferior surface of an undetermined staphylinid beetle, Malang, 



Javj 



This species differs from the others which have been examined 

 by its more or less decumbent habit, some of the filaments lying 

 in contact with the surface of the host. Its large spores are 

 somewhat broader than those of the following species, from which 

 it also differs in its small foot and spreading flexed and stouter 

 filaments. The spores seem to be more frequently produced than 

 in the other species. 



Chantransiopsis stipatus, nov. sp. — Plate XVIII, figs 17-18 



Filaments densely crowded; erect, straight, or but slightly 

 flexed, rigid, hardly tapering, closely septate, usually once branched 



from 



isodiametric 



J 



ader in the middle, 25-32X8 ju- Filaments about 110X5 M- 



On the inferior surface of a staphylinid beetle allied to Tachinus, no. 1401, 



