136 Transactions British Mycological Society. 
Eugenia sp. Blumenau, Nov. 1888, Ule, Herb. Brasiliense, No. 
1288’’: for both these, the examples in Herb. Kew have been 
examined. 
In Herb. British Museum, there are specimens of Pseudo- 
microcera Henningsii from Florida communicated by E. W. 
Berger under the name Sphaerostilbe coccophila. One collection, 
on Florida red scale of citrus (Chrysomphalus aomdium), contains 
eight leaves, six of which bear Pseudomicrocera Henningsu and 
two, Microcera aurantiicola. Another, on purple scale of citrus 
(Lepidosaphes beckit), consisting of six specimens, is Pseudo- 
mucrocera Henningsi1, except as regards one specimen which is 
Microcera auranticola. 
Other specimens of Pseudomicrocera Hennings have been 
referred to under Pseudomicrocera. 
Nectria coccoplila Nomura. 
This species, described by Nomura in 1901, was found by 
him on Asfidiotus perniciosus on Pyrus sinensis, and Diaspis 
pentagona on Morus alba, in Honsui, Japan. Miyabe and Sawada 
were apparently unacquainted with it, but cite Nomura’s 
description, as follows. 
Sporodochia irregularly pulvinate, not stilboid, orange-red, on 
a reddish stroma, sometimes confluent. Conidia falcate, of the 
Fusarium type, three- to five-septate, reaching 100 pw in length. 
Perithecia flask-shaped, bright red, appearing on the outer 
surface of the scale, three to four in a group, 260-340 p high, 
240-320 » broad. Asci fusiform, obtusely pointed at the apex, 
go-110 x 8-10 p, eight-spored, spores uniseriate, more or less 
oblique. Spores light brown, one-septate, slightly constricted at 
the septum, 15-20 x 5-6 w. Stroma scarlet, sclerotioid in texture. 
Nomura compared his species with Rolf’s figures of Sphaero- 
stilbe coccophila, and came to the conclusion that the Japanese 
and Florida species were the same, but that neither was 
Sphaerostilbe coccophila Tul. This, however, does not afford 
much assistance in deciding what his species was, for Florida 
writers have confused Microcera and Pseudomicrocera, and some 
of Rolf’s figures appear to belong to the latter. Nomura stated 
that the sporodochia of his species were not stilboid, but irre- 
gular protuberances of the type of Tubercularia; this again does 
not help, because in all these species the base of the conidial 
stage may be reduced almost to vanishing point. 
Miyabe and Sawada would appear to incline to the view that 
Nectria coccophila Nomura is identical with Sphaerostilbe cocci- 
dophthora Zimm. The dimensions of the ascospores are too 
large for Sphaerostilbe flammea or Sphaerostilbe aurantiicola, and 
would agree better with that determination. But the statement 
