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MONOGRAPH OF THE LABOULBENIACEiE. 



thecium, 180-220 x 50-60 yu. Longest appendages, 510 p. Total length to tip of perithecium, 

 500-780 fi. 



On elytra of G-alerita leptodera Chaud., Guinea ; Galerita sp., Liberia, Africa. 



Tlie figures of this species were drawn from a small amount of very poor material found on 

 a specimen of Cr. leptodera in the collection of the Cambridge Museum, and do not give a very 

 good idea of the fully developed appendages. Abundant material has since been obtained from 

 specimens of an undetermined Galerita collected by Professor Cook in Liberia. When perfect 

 tlie species is one of the most striking of the genus in appearance from the copious development 

 of its peculiar branches and its often greatly elongated neck. It is most nearly allied to L. 

 Galeritce, and represents the highest development of this peculiar type. The very numerous 

 specimens examined were found for the most part on the upper surface of the hosts. 



Laboulbf.nia Kunkeli Thaxter. Plate XVIII, figs. 9-10. 



Proc. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci. Vol. XXX, p. 471 ; Thaxteria Kunlelii Giard. Comptes Kendus Hebdom. d. Seances d. 1. Soc. 



Biol. Se'r. IX, Vol. IV, p. 156. 



Perithecium blackish brown, nearly opaque, strongly curved outward, sub-cylindrical or 

 somewhat thickened distally, tapering somewhat abruptly to the rather small, nearly truncate 

 tip ; the lip-cells distinct, the inner smaller and often slightly more prominent ; the lower 

 series of wall-cells elongated to form a hyaline, slender, cylindrical stalk somewhat shorter than 

 the ascigerous portion above it. Appehdages consisting of two basal cells ; the outer becoming 

 opaque, producing usually two branches, one external, smaller, opaque, one to three times sym- 

 podially branched, the other terminal four to nine times sympodially branched like the first in 

 an antero-posterior plane, erect, the branchlets sub-hyaline at the tips, the whole otherwise 

 opaque. The inner appendage consists of a basal cell, from which arise two branches, which, 

 curving outward, diverge on either side, rarely simple, usually furcate above their deeply 

 suffused sub-basal cell; their basal cell several times as large, inflated, sub-hyaline, suffused 

 above and below ; the secondary branches sympodially about six times branched, the branchlets 

 like those of the outer appendage. Receptacle long and very slender, cell VI greatly elon- 

 gated and very narrow, cells III and IV elongate, nearly equal, all the cells punctate or mottled 

 with somewhat darker, transversely elongate patches, cell II often brownish or quite opaque, the 

 opacity involving part of cell I, the remaining cells and sometimes the whole receptacle sub- 

 hyaline or pale yellowish brown. Spores, 185 x 14 p. Perithecia (sporiferous portion), 360-585 

 X 75-85 /x ; stalk, 320-375 X 60 yt,. Appendages, longer, about 500 fi. Receptacle, longer, 

 1.3 mm. Total length, longer, 2.2 mm. 



On Mormolyce phyl/odes Hagcnb., Perak, E. Indies. 1 



The twelve specimens from which the above description is derived were obtained from the 

 specimen of Mormolyce originally examined by Professor Giard and kindly communicated by 

 him, and were taken from the elytra, thorax, and abdomen near the base of the legs. In all 

 these situations, even where mingled with the succeeding species, the present form seems to 

 present sufficiently constant differences to justify its separation from L. palmella, with which it 

 was originally confused. Although its habit and the branching and character of its appendages 



