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Y.) ; Kumaon, Strachey & Winterhottom (N. Y., listed by 

 Strachey, as M. paleacea and M. nitida, in Cat. PI. Kumaon, 234. 

 1906) ; Musooric (Northwest Himalayas), Arnigadh, December, 

 1895, W. Gollan 210 (N. Y., Y., distributed by E. Levier as M. 

 nepalensis). 



Japan: Nagasaki, April-May, 1875, R. Oldham (N. Y., listed 

 by Mitten, as M. nitida, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 11. Bot. 3 : 205. 

 1891) ; Kigo, August, 1877, Ahlberg (B. type of M. planipora) ; 

 Yamakita, Spidzuoka, May, 1899, Ahhe Faurie (Y., distributed 

 as M. nitida in Hep. du Japon 82) ; Tokyo, May, 1897, K. Miyake 

 40 (C. C. H., Y., determined as M. diptera) ; Kuzunmura, 

 August, 1898, K. Okiidaira 26 (C. C. H) ; Kyoto, August, 1900, 

 K. Miyake (Y., determined as M. planipora) ; Mt. Futatabisan, 

 near Kobe, April, 1903, Ahhe Faurie (Y., distributed as M. 

 diptera in Hep du Japon 1268) ; Jigokudani, May, 1903, S. 

 Okamura (C. C. H.) ; Kochi, May, 1904, 6^. Okamura (C. C. H.) ; 

 Kanagawa, Sagami, no date, M. Maeda 41 (Y.) ; Osaka, May, 

 1905, S. Okamura (C. C. H.) ; Ikku, May, 1908, S. Okamura 

 (C. C. H.). 



Java: Mt. Pangerango, April, 1894, V. Schiffner (Y., dis- 

 tributed as M. nitida in Iter Ind. ^p). 



Within recent years M. paleacea has been recorded from the 

 Caucasus, from Dalmatia, Spain and Portugal, and from 

 Morocco. Although the writer has seen no specimens from any 

 of these countries, there can be little doubt regarding the cor- 

 rectness of the determinations. Some of the records for M. 

 nitida, however, are open to suspicion. This species has been 

 reported from the Philippines, Tahiti, Samoa and New Zealand, 

 as well as from the Fiji and Hawaiian Islands Specimens from 

 the first four of these localities, which have been determined as 

 M. nitida, have been examined and are, in the writer's opinion, 

 referable to other species. No specimens from either the Fiji or 

 the Hawaiian Islands have been available for study. 



Although M. paleacea is here reported from a number of North 

 American localities it is remarkable that there are no earlier 

 records for the species from America. In fact the only trust- 

 worthy records for M. tholophora, here considered a synonym of 

 M. paleacea, are the following : 



