21<S FETCH : 



Type specimen, ex Herb. Raciborski, on a scale insect on 

 Myristica, Depok, examined. Raciborski {loc. cit.) also records 

 it on a scale insect on Garcinia, Buitenzorg. The scale insect on 

 the specimen examined is Lecanium {? expansum). The type 

 specimen bears much resemblance to Hypocrella scutata, but has 

 larger part-spores, and is not resinous ; the latter point, however, 

 may depend on the scale insect. Another gathering, ex Herb. 

 Raciborski, on Calycodaphne sp., Java, is apparently the same, 

 but the stromata vary in shape ; they are up to 6 mm. in diameter, 

 circular, smooth, convex, thinning out gradually to the margin, 

 or thinning abruptly with a broad thin margin ; the perithecial 

 orifices are irregularly scattered, crowded towards the margin, 

 less numerous in the centre, with red-brown, usually sunk ostiola ; 

 tlie part-spores are more mature than in the type, slightly barrel- 

 shaped, 6-10 X 1 • 5-2 ^ ; this collection is parasitic on Lecanium 

 {? expansum). 



A specimen in Herb. Kew, on Lecanium expansum on Chiso- 

 chiton sp., Perak, coll. H. N. Ridley, may be the Aschersonia stage 

 of this species. The stromata are up to 7 mm. diameter, convex 

 in the centre, and up to 2 mm. thick, thinning out regularly to the 

 margin, or thinning abruptly into a broad thin margin, which is 

 usually recurved. The pycnidial orifices are situated in minute 

 elevations, numerous towards the margin, few or none in tlie 

 centre. The pycnidia are regularly flask-shaped or pyriform, 

 0'3-0-4 mm. deep, regularly arranged near the periphery ; the 

 pycnospores are fusoid, ends pointed, 8-10 x 1 ' 5-2 ^. 



Distribution. — Java, in Herb. Raciborski. 



Figures. — Plate 3, fig. 27, specimen ex type, x 5; Plate 4, 

 fig. 22, section, x 6. 



Hypocrella bispora v. Hohnel, Sitzungsber. d. Kais. Akad. d. 

 Wissensch., Wien, CXVIII., p. 826 (1908).— Stromata 

 brownish -black to black, scutate, 3-5 mm. diameter, umbonate 

 in the centre, 1 " 5 mm. thick, 1 mm. thick at the margin, which 

 is somewhat swollen and rounded, smooth, with a white 

 membrane underlying the stroma ; ostiola scattered, scarcely 

 projecting. Internally white or slightly fuscous, with a 

 purplish or blackish peripheral zone about O'l mm. deep. 

 Perithecia rather scattered, ovate to flask-shaped, 220-280 [i 

 high, 110-120 [). diameter, usually with a long neck up to 120 [x 

 long ; perithecia 160 X 95 \x, if the neck is absent. Asci 

 80-100 X 4-5 ^,, two- or four-spored. Part-spores cylindric, 

 4-6 X 1-5 [x. 



Specimens and slides of this species were kindly lent me by 

 Prof, von Hohnel. It was collected on leaves of Pinanga, at 

 Salak, near Buitenzorg. In shape it resembles flat specimens of 



