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Within the census programme ofthe macrofungi in Sicily, attention has been devoted to hypogeous species and to genus Tuber P. Micheli ex Wigger in particular. Ihis work reports the finding of Tuber rufum Pico and T. panniferum Tul., the latter new for Sicily. For each taxon found, the distributiol1 on the Italian tenitory and the ecological data of the finding areas are presented. The record of the two species allows to define the southem limit of their area of distribution in Italy.