the Genies Cor dy ceps. 
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* We describe and figure an interesting example, being the 
underground caterpillar of a British Noctua , or possibly 
Hepialus , of which we received specimens from E. Mawley, 
Esq., of Rosebank, Berkhampstead, Herts. Several similar 
specimens were found underground in a border of herbaceous 
perennials, near a good sized lime-tree ; they were all found 
dead, each with a profusion of filaments from the segments 
behind the head, which appear to have been injured or 
crushed. They were generally found about i inch below the 
surface, and the fungoid filaments sometimes emerge from 
each end of the caterpillar, one being seen in the figure 
near the extremity of the body. The species may be named 
after its discoverer Cordyceps Mawley i. J. O. Westwood.’ 
It can scarcely be hoped to recognize in future the object 
the author had in view. The figure shows a caterpillar with 
a mass of Isaria-like filaments and a single, slender, fiexuous 
club about 2-5 cm. long. 
59 . Cordyceps albella (Berk. & Curt.). 
Numerous slender stems spring from the under surface of 
the thorax and abdomen of the host, whitish or tinged yellow, 
|-i cm. long, 1-2 mm. thick, cylindrical or with an indication 
of becoming clavate, all immature. The body and legs of the 
insect are almost covered with a whitish mould. 
Cordyceps albidus , Berk. & Curtis, in Herb. The specific 
name is antedated by Patouillard. 
On the perfect form of a member of the Gryllidae. 
Cuba (Wright, no. 890). 
Apparently the same species — sterile — growing on some 
Orthopterous insect, was sent from Ceylon by Thwaites. 
60 . Cordyceps fuliginosa, Cesati, Giorn. Inst. Lomb. Milan, 
1.848, p. 31 ; Comm. Crittog. Ital. vol. i, p. 67, t. 6, fig. 1 (1861) ; 
Sacc., Syll. ii, no. 5042 ; Cke., Veget. Wasps and Plant Worms, 
p. 183, pi. i, fig. 5 (after Cesati). 
On Bombyx {Orgy id) antiqua. 
Distrib . — Italy. 
