UPON «CALE-rNSECTS. I j 



The measurements recorded for the various parts of the 

 fungi about to be described are given either in millimetres 

 (mm.) or in micromillimetres* (/*). 



The paper is illustrated by figures to aid the verbal 

 descriptions. These have been either made directly from 

 the specimens or copied from coloured drawings executed 

 by Mr. Green and W. de Alwis, late draughtsman of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. It is to be hoped that these 

 coloured drawings now in the possession of the author, with 

 additions, may eventually be published with a complete 

 account of the Ceylon eoccidophagous fungi. 



//._ s YS TEMA TIG A CCO UN 1 \ 



(A) ASCOMYCETES. 



Pyrenomycetes-Hypocreales. 



Genus Torrubiella, Boudier. 



This genus was founded by Boudiert in 1885 for a 



fungus named T. aranicida, discovered by him on spiders 



in France. Since then three other species have been added. 



viz.: — 



T. tomentosa, Pat., J 1892, on a spider (?) on a leaf of a 

 tree, Ecuador, S. America. 



T. rubra, Pat.,§ 1893, on the dead bodies of a coccid. ou 

 leaves of Melastoma sp.. and Solan um sp., Ecuador. S. 

 America. 



T. luteorostrata, Zimm.,|| 1901. on a coccid on a leaf of 

 a jungle tree, Java. 



This genus is characterized by forming a dense hyphal 

 mat, upon the margin of which are borne several upright 

 elongated perithecia. The ascospores are thread-like. 

 Thus it is fairly sharply marked off from the rest of the 



* A micromilliinetre equals 0-001 mm. 



f Boudier. Revue Mycol., 1885, p. 227 ; and Saccardo. S. V. Addifc. to vol.. 

 I. -IV.. 1886, p. 220. 



% Patouillard et Lag-erheim. Bull. Soc. Mycol.. France. VIII.. 1892, p. 



133. 

 § Patouillard et Lagerheim : Bull. Soc. Mycol.. France, IX.. \*'X\. p, 154. 



(| Zimmermann. Joe. cit, 



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