246 FUNGI. 
genera Sporormta and Sordaria, whilst Fuckel * proposes a dis- 
tinct group of Spheriacei, under the name of Fimicoli, in which 
he includes as genera Coprolepa, Hypocopra, Delitschia, Sporor- 
mia, Pleophragmia, Malinvernia, Sordaria, and Cercophora. The 
two species of Pilobolus, and some of Afucor, are also found on 
dung, Isaria felina on that of cats, Stilbum jfimetarium and a 
few other moulds, and amongst Agarics some specics of Coprinus. 
Animal substances are not, as a rule, prolific in the production 
of fungi. Ascobolus saccharinus and one or two others have 
been found upon old leather. Onygena of two or three species 
occurs on old horn, hoofs, &c. Cheese, milk, &c., afford a few 
forms, but the largest number infest dead insects, either under 
the mouldy form of Isaria or the more perfect condition of Tor- 
rubia, and occasionally under other forms. 
Robin ¢ has recorded that three species of Brachinus, of the 
order Coleoptera, have been found infected, whilst living, with a 
minute ycllow fungus which he calls Laboulbenia Rougeti, and 
the same species has been noted on other beetles. Zorrubia 
Melolonthe t has been described by Tulasne as occurring on the 
maybug or cockchafer, which is allied to, if not identical with, 
Cordyceps Ravenelii, B. and C., and also that described and figured 
by M. Fougeroux de Bondaroy.€ Zorrubia.curculionum, Tul., 
eccurs on several species of beetles, and seems to be by no means 
uncommon in Brazil and Central America. Zorrubia coespitosa, 
Tul., which may be the same as Cordyceps Sinclairi, B.,|| is found 
on the larvae of Orthoptera in New Zealand, Torrubia Miquelii 
on the larvee of Cicada in Brazil, and Torrubia soli lifera on the 
pup of Cicada in the West Indies. A romantic account is 
given of this in an extract cited by Dr. Watson in his communi- 
cation to the Royal Society.q ‘The vegetable fly is found in 
the island Dominica, and (excepting that it has no wings) re- 
* Fuckel, ‘‘ Symbol Mycolozice,” p. 240. 
+ Robin, ‘¢ Végét. Parasites,” p. 622, t. viii. f. 1, 2. 
t Tulasne, ‘‘ Selecta Fung Carp.” iii. p. 12. 
§ ‘* Hist. de l’'Acad. des Sciences,” 1769. Paris, 1772. 
|| Berkeley, ‘‘ Crypt. Bot.’’ p. 73; Hooker, ‘* New Zealand Flora, ’ ii. 338, 
| ‘ Philosophical Transactions,” lili. (1763), p. 271. 
