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with a white tip 0-3 mm. high, while others appear wholly trans- 
lucent, the tip being filled with an orange-yellow mass of conidia. 
The conidia are of the usual form, or almost straight with curved 
tips, up to five-septate, 70-90 x 4p. 
In another Australian gathering, on Lepidosaphes sp. on 
Melaleuca leucadendron, Stapleton, N.T., the stroma is dark red, 
subtranslucent, irregular, either situated at one side of the scale 
or overgrowing it completely. It is somewhat adhesive, and 
though the specimen was collected about fifteen years ago, it 
still adheres to paper if lightly pressed. The sporodochia have 
broad bases, up to 0-4 mm. broad, and 0-3 mm. high, but in 
some the base is almost absent. The bases have the same colour 
and appearance as the stroma, and are slightly longitudinally 
tomentose. The tip is short, white, conical, up to 0-15 mm. high, 
sometimes represented by a few scattered teeth only, in the 
available specimens. The conidia are arcuate, equally curved, 
tapering regularly to the tips, a few nearly straight, generally 
five-septate, 72-94 x 4p. This differs from the common Ceylon 
form in its shorter tip and subtranslucent waxy stroma. 
Microcera Merrillaa Syd. (Ann. Myc. xu, p. 576), on a scale 
on Eugenia perpallida from the Philippines, would appear to 
resemble the foregoing. I have examined the co-type, S. 259, 
Herb. Bureau Sci. Philippines, which contains very few stromata, 
and those all immature. The stromata are dark red, subtrans- 
lucent, waxy, covering the scale or spreading from it on one 
side rather more widely than in the usual form. The largest 
stroma found was flattened convex, about o-8 mm. diameter. 
The structure of the stroma is not that of the true Microcera 
but that of Microcera Fujikurot. Sydow describes the sporo- - 
dochia as pale blood red, sessile, generally confluent in small 
masses I-I-5 mm. diameter, and the conidia narrow fusiform, 
straight or subfalcate, three-septate, with acute tips, 40-60 x 
3°5-4. I was unable to find conidia in the co-type, but those 
described by Sydow evidently agree with those of Microcera 
Fujtkurot, not with those of Microcera coccophila. Sydow com- 
pared his species to Microcera tasmanica McAlp., but it has not 
the structure of the latter. 
Both Microcera Merrillii and the Australian specimen on 
Melaleuca yield a white precipitate when treated with alcohol. 
That characteristic, however, is not confined to these subtrans- 
lucent forms, but has been noted in an opaque form from 
Grenada. 
Hennings in 1903 (Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. p. 57) described 
Fusarvum coccidicola on a coccus on leaves of Tea, Ost-Usambara, 
East Africa. The sporodochia were said to be effused, waxy, 
cinnabar, with fasciculate, simple, septate, rosy-hyaline hyphae, 
