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ostiola project. Isolated perithecia conoid, yellow, with an 

 outer coat of interwoven yellow hyphae, O'l mm. tliick, 

 extending nearly to the apex which is red-brown and conoid ; 

 after removal of the tomentose coat, the perithecia are conoid, 

 0*75 mm. high, 0'35 mm. diameter, suddenly expanding 

 above into a thickened capitate apex ; wall of perithecium 

 thick ; by transmitted light the wall of the perithecium is 

 yellow and the thickened apex orange or reddish-yellow. Asci 

 long, cylindi'ical, capitate, eight-spored, 6-7 [l diameter ; 

 part-spores cylindric, becoming somewhat narrow-oval with 

 obtuse ends, 4-7 X 1 '5 [;.. 



Chili ; on an Aleyrodid on an undetermined leaf, Corral, 

 December, 1905, coll. et comm. R. Thaxter. 



With regard to the previously-described species of Torru- 

 hiella, T. hrunnea v. Keissler, as far as can be determined from 

 the description, is most probably identical Avith T. luteorostrato 

 Zimm. T. tomentosa Pat., originally recorded on an un- 

 determined insect, which it was suggested might be a spider, 

 is. Professor Patouillard informs me, on a scale insect. 



The species of Torrubiella at present known to be parasitic 

 on scale insects are : — 



T. rubra Pat. & Lagh., Ecuador ; Chili. 



T. luteorostrata Zimm., Java; Ceylon; Seychelles; Upolu. 



T. tenuis Petch, Ceylon. 



T. sublintea Petch, Cliili. 



T. tomentosa Pat., Ecuador. 



T. barda Petch, Chili. 



T. Lecanii J ohnst., Cuba. 



Among a collection of scale insect fungi from Claili kindly 

 submitted to me by Professor Thaxter is an Aschersonia, 

 which does not agree with any of the species hitherto described. 

 It may be known as Aschersonia intermedia. 



Aschersonia intermedia Petch, n. sp. Stromata discoid, 

 contracted at the base, up to 1 "4 diameter, 0*4 mm. high. 



