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the Genus Cordyceps . 
stipe and capitulum, retaining half. I send the whole of the 
large larva. The colour is pretty well preserved. I have 
seen several insect Cordyceps here, but this differs from 
anything I have seen. On dead larva buried in ground. 
Seabord of S. C., April 1881. H. W. Raveneh’ 
Type specimen in Herb. Kew. 
Cooke, in describing the present species, says the asci are 
600 v long, and the spores 450 g long, component cells 1 2 ^ 
long. These measurements are wrong, being much too large, 
and probably due to a mistake as to the objective used during 
examination. The asci in reality measure 200-225 x 7-8 ju. 
4. Cordyceps Puiggarii, Speg., Fung. Fueg. no. 304, in 
Bol. Acad. Nacional Cord. 1888 ; Sacc., Syll. Suppl., vol. ix, 
no. 4010. 
5. Cordyceps alutacea, Quelet, Champ. Jura et Vosges, in 
M6m. Soc. d’ Emulat. de Montbeliard, 1875, P* 57 ; Sacc., 
Syll. ii, no. 5023. 
Growing among the leaves of P intis sylvestris. 
Distrib. — F ranee. 
In a footnote Quelet says that in texture and fructification 
this species closely approaches the genus Hypocrea. 
6. Cordyceps sobolifera, Berk, and Broome, Fungi of 
Ceylon, no. 978 ; Sacc., Syll. no. 5021. 
Clavaria sobolifera , Hill, Watson and Hill in Phil. 
Trans., vol. 53, p. 271, tab. 23 (1763). 
Sphaeria sobolifera , Berk., Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. ii, p. 
207 (1843). 
Torrubia sobolifera , Tulasne, Sel. Fung. Carp, iii, p. 10, 
t. 1, figs, 32, 33. 
On the larva of a beetle, probable one of the Melolonthidae. 
Distrib. — Dominica ; Martinique ; Guadaloupe ; S. America, 
with a note on label, as follows : ‘ On a larva which destroys 
the cotton crop in S. America.’ 
7. Cordyceps sphaecocephala (Kl.). 
Cordyceps sphecophila , Berk, and Curt., Fung. Cub. no. 
