Abstract: Based on the specimen collected from Mountain Huang Shan in Anhui Province of China during July 1956, a new species of Xerocomus astraeico-lopsis Ying et Wang is described and illustrated. This species resembles Xerocomus astraeicola Imazeki in morphological characters and parasitic habit,but differs from the latter by the characteristics that its flesh and tubes remain unchanged in colour when touched or cut, spores 9.1-10.9 (-12.3) x 4 -5.4 um honey-coloured in KOH and in Mel- zer's slightly pale brown, inamyloid., The stipe is sordid ochraceus and the pleurocystidia are significantly smaller than those of X. astraeicola. The type specimen of new species is deposited in the Herbarium Mgcologicum, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China.

Key words: new species, genus, xerocomus, China