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Mas see. — A Revision of 
43 . Cordyceps Hugelii, Corda, Anleit. Stud, der Mycol. 
p. 20 7, tab. F, fig. 22 (1842) ; Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5034. 
Sphcteria Hugelii , Corda, Icon. Fung. pt. iv, p. 44, tab. 
ix, fig. 129. 
Sphaeria Robertsii , Hook., Hook. Journ. Bot. vol. ii, 
p. 209 (1843). 
Cordyceps Robertsii , Hook., Flor. New Zealand, vol. ii, 
p. 202 (1855). 
Parasitic on the larva of Hepialis virescens , Doubleday. 
Distrib . — New Zealand (Colenso ; Dr. Berggren; F. Moore). 
var. neglecta, Mass. (Plate II, Fig. 33.) 
Agreeing with the typical form in general appearance and 
size, also in occurring on the same host ; differing in the 
superficial perithecia being flask-shaped with a long, slender 
ostiolum, and in the component cells of the spore measuring 
6-7 x 2 ix. 
New Zealand (Colenso). 
Type in Herb. Kew. 
44 . Cordyceps militaris, Link, Hdbk. iii, p. 347 (1833); 
Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5031. 
Clavaria militaris , Linn., Sp. PI., ed. i, p. 1182 (1753); 
Flor. Dan. tab. 657 (1775). 
Torrubia militaris , Tul., Sel. Fung. Carp., iii, p. 6, t. i, 
figs. 19-31. 
(Conidial form) Ramaria farinosa , Th. Holm., Nov. Act. 
Acad. Hafinen., vol. i, p. 299, fig. 6 (1781). 
Isaria farinosa , Fries, Syst. Myc. iii, p. 271 (1832). 
Exsicc. — -Sydow, Myc. March., no. 954; Klotzsch, Herb. 
Myc. no. 47 ; Plowright, Cent, iii, no. 1, of Sphaer. Brit. ; 
Fuckel, Fung. Rhen. nos. 1067 and 2535 ; Rabenh., Winter 
Fung. Eur. no. 3548 (in larvibus et sphingibus emortuis) ; 
Roum., Fung. Gall. Exs. no. 3157. 
Growing on the chrysalis or larva stage of insects mostly 
belonging to the Lepidoptera. Gray mentions Phalera 
bucephala , one of the Notodontidae , as one of the hosts. 
On Lachnosterna qucrcina (Thaxter, Plost-Index, p. 181). 
