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and the granules tend to fuse into a hyaline sheet, as in the 

 hypothallus, but this is not continuous over the stroma in the 

 available specimens, and the surface of the stroma usually 

 appears tomentose. The inner hyphae are more densely inter- 

 woven than those at the exterior. 



By transmitted light, the hyphae appear only feebly coloured. 

 In the pink stromata, they are red or red-brown in mass, but 

 only faintly tinged pale red when isolated. In the brown stro- 

 mata, the hyphae are faintly tinged yellow. The hyphae on the 

 perithecium are often closely septate. 



Torrubiella luteorostrata Zimm. in Centralb. f. Bakt. Abt. 

 2, VII (1901), p. 872; Torruhiella hrunnea v. Keissl. in Annales 

 Mycologici, vii (1909), p. 292. 



Stromata pulvinate, flattened pulvinate, ring-shaped, or 

 discoid, up to 1-5 mm. diameter, purple-red, becoming purple- 

 brown, yellow-brown, or Sanford brown, rarely white, tomen- 

 tose, rather loose internally, surrounded by a white, byssoid 

 or powdery hypothaUus. 



Perithecia produced on the stroma or the hypothallus, 

 scattered or clustered, sometimes solitary without any stroma 

 except a slight basal weft of hyphae, elongated flask-shaped or 

 elongated conoid, 0-6-0-9 mm. high, 0-25-0-3 mm. diameter, 

 purple-red, red-brown by transmitted light; neck 0-08 mm. 

 diameter, at first dark purple-red, becoming yellow when 

 mature, decurved or twisted in herbarium specimens; perithecia 

 usually clothed with purple-red hyphae up to two-thirds their 

 height, rarely almost glabrous; asci long, cylindrical, capitate, 

 eight-spored, y jx diameter; spores filiform, as long as the ascus, 

 septate, dividing into cylindrical part-spores, 3-6 x ijx. 



Java; on a coccid, Buitenzorg (Zimmermann). Upolu; on a 

 coccid on leaves of Melicope [T. brimnea v. Keissl.) C. Rechinger 

 No. 5274, Herb. Mus. Palat. Vindob. (von Keissler). Ceylon; on 

 an Aleyrodid on Tetranthera, Pundaluoya, Feb. 1889, coll. 

 E. E. Green (Parkin, Torrubiella, i, p. 18); on Aspidiotus on 

 Strobilanthes sp., Hakgala, Sept. 1908; on Fiorinia ruhrolineaia 

 on Saprosma zeylanicum Bedd., Hakgala, May 1910; on As- 

 pidiotus destructor on Loranthus sp., Hakgala, May 1910; on 

 Fiorinia on Murraya exotica L., Hakgala, May 1910, April 1917; 

 on an Aleyrodid on Saprosma zeylanicum Bedd., Hakgala, 

 May 1912; on an Aleyrodid on Allophylus zeylanicus L., Hak- 

 gala, May 1912; on a black Aleyrodid on Pavetta indica L., 

 Hakgala, January 1914; on an Aleyrodid on an undetermined 

 host plant, Hakgala, April 1917; on a black Aleyrodid on 

 Hedyotis verticillarisW. and A., Nuwara Eliya, December 1917; 

 on an Aleyrodid on Psychotria elongata Hk. f., Hakgala, April 

 1919. Seychelles, on an Aleyrodid on Cyperus sp.,Mahe, coll. 

 R. Dupont (Plate II, figs. 2-5). 



