FROM H. H. HILL, NEW ZEALAND

Stalk proceeding from near the head of larva, about an inch long, bearing at the apex two or three short, oval, black clubs. Our figure is the best description. We know no other species where the clubs are borne in this way excepting Cordyceps Dovei, Myc. Notes, p. 691, fig. 1034 and that is very different. In addition the black clubs and hard texture are unusual for a Cordyceps. A section shows perithecia filled with hyaline hyphae, or at least it looks to me like ligneous hyphae and not at all like asci which I have no doubt they are, probably immature, as I see no sign of the spores. All of which is very mysterious to me.