Cordyceps melolonihae

Cordyceps melolonihae Sacc. Michelia 1 : 320. 1878
Stromata simple, elongate, slender, cylindric, often flexuous, brownish, minutely velvety at the base, smooth above, 5-8 cm. high and 1.5 mm. thick ; head cylindric, about 1.5 cm. long and 3 mm. thick ; perithecia blackish, large, ovoid, subsuperficial ; asci subcylindric, capitate at the apex, with a short pedicel below ; spores arranged in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, hyaline, filiform, straight or curved, many-septate, 130 X 2.5 /u; segments 3.5/^ long.
On larvae buried in the ground.
Typk locality : South Carolina.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.