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them, and is represented in figs. 30-31. That these organisms 

 belong to the same category seems very probable; but since their 

 development has not as yet been satisfactorily followed out, 

 these figures are given merely to call attention to their existence. 

 They usually grow on the bristles, antennae, or legs of their hosts, 

 and closely resemble germinating spores of Laboulbeniales, or 

 might be mistaken, when mature, for male individuals of Amorpho- 

 myces or Dimeromyces. There is no reason to believe, however, 

 that they have any connection whatever with the Laboulbeniales. 

 The individuals, which always terminate in a more slender 

 necklike portion, consist of a basal cell attached by a black foot, 

 above which two other cells appear to be, as a rule, obliquely related. 

 Of these the upper appears either to abjoint or become divided into 

 small spermatium-like bodies, which pass out through a terminal 

 pore. Until their development has been more carefully examined, 

 however, it has seemed best not to give names to such species 

 as are in the possession of the writer. Of the forms illustrated, 

 fig. 31 occurs on Labia minor, the others on Staphylinidae. 



Amphoromorpha entomophila, nov. sp. — Plate XIX, figs. 26, 27 



Pale yellowish brown, translucent, amphora-shaped, the body 

 long elliptical or tapering below to the narrow base, abruptly 

 contracted distally below the well defined subcvlindrical terminal 

 neck, the apex of which is slightly compressed and truncate; the 

 foot relatively large, pointed below, somewhat spreading, black. 

 Total length 110-130/1, the body 70-105X28-31 m, the neck 

 I 4~i7X7-5-8 /x; spores about 4 ju; foot 35X17 ju. 



On the bristles of Diochus conicollis Motsch., and species of two other 

 genera of Staphylinidae; also on a species of (?) Labia, Manila, Philippines. 



The hosts bearing this curious plant were found among a num- 

 ber of miscellaneous insects which Mr. C. S. Banks of the Bureau 

 of Science was so kind as to have collected for the writer. The 

 individuals are solitary, and occur in small numbers projecting 

 at an acute angle from the bristles of the legs, or of other portions 

 of the body. Being much larger than many Laboulbeniale.-. 

 they are readily seen, but no other insects have been found which 



