Trichia craterioides Martin, Brittonia 14: 183. 1962, applied to a collection from New Zealand, is a later homonym of T. craterioides Corda, Ic. Fung. 2: 21. 1838. Corda's species was cited by G. Lister in 1911, in the second edition of The Mycetozoa, as a synonym of T. varia Pers., without comment or suggestion that anyone had examined the type. This citation was repeated in the third edition of 1925, was copied by Macbride and Martin in 1934 and again by Martin in 1944. Reference to Corda's description and his illustration, plate 12, fig. 85, makes this assignment extremely questionable. The identity of Corda's species must remain uncertain until his type, which may still exist in Prague, can be reexamined. The name should not, of course, have been given to what is certainly a different species. I therefore propose Trichia crateriformis nom. nov. for the New Zealand species.