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bear them, with the exception of a small bug, also from the Philip- 

 pines, on two specimens of which a closely allied or perhaps identi- 

 cal form (fig. 29) was obtained, but not in sufficient numbers for 

 description. It differs in its smaller size and broader blunt 

 discharge tube. 



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EXPLANATION OF PLATES XYI-XIX 



The figures are reduced from camera drawings made with Zeiss dry objec- 

 tives and eye-pieces and the Leitz w r ater immersion as indicated. . * 



Muiogone Chromopteri Thaxter 



Fig. 1. — Abdomen of host showing a pustule of the fungus growing on 

 the under surface; A4. 



Fig. 2. — Two detached spores with broken stalks; D12. 



Fig. 3. — Tip of a spore greatly magnified, some of the spines distally 

 perforate; water im. 12. 



Malaria armata Thaxter 



Fig. 4. — A tuft of the fungus growing on the host's leg; D4. 



Fig. 5. — Two spores showing the scaly modification of the surface; D4. 



Miliaria repens Thaxter 



Fig. 6. — General habit of repent form on the hosts wing; A4. 

 Fig. 7. — Small portion of the same enlarged. 



Fig. 8. — Portion of a tuft growing on the abdomen in which the spores 

 * germinating; D4. 

 Fig. 9. — Surface view of single spore with basal spur and below it the ring 

 indicating proliferation ; D4. 



Miliaria Lonchaeana Thaxter 



Fig. 10. — Tuft of the fungus from abdomen of host showing scurfy char- 

 acter of the surface and rhizoidal outgrowth from base; D4. 

 Fig. 11. — Single spore in optical section; D4. 



Miliaria gracilis Thaxter 



Fig. 12. — Tuft of the fungus growing on leg of host; D2. 

 Fig. 13. — Single spore showing character of surface; D4. 



Chantransiopsis Xantholini Thaxter 



Fig. 14. — Rather large tuft with numerous spores; D4. 

 Fig. 15. — Tips of two sporiierous branchlets; water im. 4. 

 Fig. 16. — Two spores; water im. 4. 



