i8 Massee. — A Revision of 
22. Cordyceps Barberi, Giard, Compt. Rendus Soc. deBiol., 
Paris, seance du 22 Dec. 1894, p. 823. (Plate II, Figs. 34-35.) 
Gregarious, most numerous in the cervical region, but 
springing from every part of the caterpillar, 2-4 cm. high, 
entirely whitish or tinged with amber upwards ; ascigerous 
portion the whole length, tip pointed, often curved, 
3-4 mm. thick at the widest part, smooth and even, very 
minutely pitted with the mouths of the completely immersed, 
ovate perithecia ; stem slender, wavy ; asci narrowly cylindric- 
clavate ; very slightly narrowed immediately below the capi- 
tate apex, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, arranged in a parallel, 
very slightly twisted fascicle in the ascus, filiform, very slightly 
thickened above the middle, multiguttulate, then multiseptate, 
1 15-125 x i*5 /x ,* component cells about 2-5 /x long. 
Parasitic on the larvae of Diatraea saccharalis , Fab., the 
perfect state of which is known in the West Indies as the 
‘ moth-borer,’ on account of its habit of perforating the 
culms of sugar-cane, and consequently doing a large amount 
of injury to the crop. 
Distrib. — Barbados ; Antigua. 
Type specimens in Herb. Kew. 
The specimens were sent to Kew by Mr. John R. Bovell, 
F.C.S., F.L.S., &c., during the autumn of 1894, and were 
labelled Cordyceps Bovellii , but C. Barberi , Giard, has been 
adopted, having priority of publication, and on the assump- 
tion that Isaria Barberi , Giard, 1 . c., is the conidial form of 
the ascigerous condition described above. 
The larvae are attacked by the fungus while lying in their 
burrows in the cane-stems. The fungus springs from every 
part of the caterpillar, hence the stems vary in length, those 
originating farthest away from the mouth of the burrow being 
longest, as all the stems appear to grow towards the opening, 
and push the ascigerous portion into the air. 
23 . Cordyceps Gunnii, Berk., Decad. Fung. no. 200, in 
Hook. Journ. Bot, vol. vii, p. 577, pi. xxii (1848); Flor. 
Tasm. ii, p. 278 ; Curr., Comp. Sphaer., Trans. Linn. Soc. 
