20 parkin: fungi parasitic 



referable bo Fusarium. Later deep pink perithecia appeared, 

 clearly revealing the fungus to be :i Nectria. Further search 

 has shown it t<> be one of the commonest of the Ceylon 

 scale fungi, attacking exclusively coccids belong to the sub- 

 family Diaspidinae. 



In a systematic account of some Ceylon fungi published 

 in 1S7."> by Berkeley and Broome" ;i new species of 

 Nectria, uamed A", aurantiicola, is mentioned incidentally 

 18 growing apparently from some coccus on orange twigs. 

 This naturally suggests the possibility of A 7 ", aurantiicola 

 being identical with the one first discovered by Green. Tt 

 will lie shown, however, that Berkeley and Broome's 

 Nectria, judging from their description, does not agree in 

 every detail with the one recently found. Still the disparity 

 is perhaps hardly sufficient to separate the two forms as 

 ■listinct species. 



Two instances of Nectria occurring on coccids are record- 

 ed in Saccardo's "Sylloge Fungorum." The first N. coccorum 

 Speg.,t was found in Brazil, and is described as growing 

 on dead coccids situated on fallen leaves. No conidial 

 fructification is mentioned. It is placed in the sub-genus 

 Dial o-nectria and distinguished as having smooth solitary 

 perithecia and no stroma, whereas Ku-nectria possesses one. 



The second. A', coccogena (Eu-nectria), Speg4 was also 

 found in Brazil growing on 'lead coccids on living leaves of 

 a apeeiesof Eugenia. No description of the fungus is given 

 in Saccardo's w ork. 



\ more impor tan 1 instance of such a position for Nectria 



is that of /iiiniiM iinanii. In his paper§ of 11)01 on .lava 



forme o! Lsoomycetes parasitic on Coccidss, he describes a 



■ies of N which he considers new and names 



V. i I '.ii-iir, i , -in 1 1 uccidopkthora. He saj s it is closely related 



to \. aurantiicola^ Berkeley and Broome, bat >li Hers in the 



Berkel< ■ and Hi oome, loo. a 

 3. P. additamenta to vols. I.-Y.. L886, p. 208. 

 J .-. I'. rol. IN... is'.u. p. :>.v.i. 



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