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disease. Be names the species Hi/alupus V'/v/ms, in honour 



i Bf. -. f Martinique. He Bays it differs from 



Mtalagmu licola referred 60 below, in Blight details, 



cliietl\ in having simple and not branched or whorled coni- 



diophores. It forms lit 1 1 * graj patches over and aronnd the 



fertile byphae (conidiophores) are upright, and 



;ir« each terminated by a mncilaginons sphere containing 



ral conidiameasnring 4 x 1-1*5/*. These readily bnd like 



ls( in w;iier. 



The investigator has tried various culture and inoculation 

 experiments. In a 5 per cent, sugar jelly the fungus in- 

 creases wholly in the yeast fashion, hyphae only appearing 

 as the nutritive material becomes exhausted. In broth made 

 ol scale-insects the conidia form a mycelium. Hence the 

 1 ongus ni;i\ eii ber assume a m\ celial or a yeas! form, accord- 

 ing 10 1 he medium, in which it is grown. In the bodj of the 

 coccid it appear- to increase yeast-like, but externally it forms 

 a mycelium bearing the above mentioned conidiophores. 



ITis inoculations have only been partially successful. 



il' has tried them on Aspidiotus Nerii, and finds thai 



success only attends inoculations with the \easi form. He 



ot been able to obtain by artificial infection a mycelium 



midia. 



This fungus is evidently near akin to the Ceylon and Java 



Oephalosporium, though hardly identical. Its great oapaoit] 



of budding like yeasi is a difference, [t is a point also ol 



some significance to note thai this Eungus occurs on As- 



pidiotus, whereas Oephalosporium has so far been onl*j ion ml 



on l.e-aniiiin. 



n- . {crostalaginus, Corda. 

 This _■■ mis differs Erom Oephalosporium in having up- 

 right oonidiophores, branched in a rerticillate manner. 

 • in his reoenl work " I fn Pungi Para- 

 • on Man and Animals/ 1 a new species whiob be found 

 growing on the scales ol a coccid on a shrub in a green-house 



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