REVISIONS OF CEYLON FUNGI. 4S1 



if a species which is known to occur on Lecanium in 

 India, Ceylon, and Java did not occur in other parts of the 

 Tropics. Species which might prove on examination to be 

 identical with Hypocrella ceramichroa, judging from their 

 descriptions , are Aschersonia sclerotioides P. Henn. , from 

 Java, Hypocrella pernettyce Pat. from Java, Aschersonia 

 badia Pat., from Tonkin, and Aschersonia marginata Ell. & Ev., 

 from the Sandwich Islands. From an extensive collection of 

 Aschersonia spp. at present under examination, it would appear 

 that the species on Aleurodidm always possess paraphyses, 

 while those on Lecaniidm never liave them. 



In an account of Fleischeria javanica Penz. & Sacc, in Ann. 

 Peradeniya, IV., p. 60, it was stated that that species did 

 not grow on a scale insect. Further examples from the same 

 locality have shown that that statement is incorrect : in one 

 case it was associated with Lecanium olece, and in another, with 

 an undetermined Lecaniid. This species is apparently distinct 

 from Hypocrella ceramichroa ; the pycnidial orifices project 

 sUghtly, and the perithecia are arranged singly in superficial 

 tubercles, so that an old example resembles a group of nectrias 

 on a globose stroma ; it is slightly tuberculate when young and 

 strongly tuberculate when old ; the conidia are broader, 8-14 X 

 3-3 "5 ^ and the ascospores, according to Penzig and Saccardo, 

 are 14-15 x 1 • 7-2 a* though in my Ceylon specimens the largest 

 ascospore is only 10 x 2*5 ;l«. There is a shght blackening 

 at the base in some specimens. The pycnidia are without 

 paraphyses, and in this respect resemble those of H. ceramichroa. 

 The stromata are rather harder than those of H. ceramichroa, 

 but this scarcely seems sufficient to warrant its separation as a 

 distinct genus. The name Fleischeria ought to be discarded, 

 and the fungus should be known as Hypocrella javanica. 



I am indebted to Mr. E. E. Green for the determinations of 

 the insects mentioned above. 



62.— Ophiodothis brevis (B. & Br.) Petch. 



Ephelis brevis B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 800, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 89. 



Berkeley and Broome's description of this species is " solida. 

 nigra ; sporis minutis brevibus hnearibus. On Anthisteria 



