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that the sporodochia are seated on a reddish stroma, and that 
the stroma is scarlet and sclerotioid, points rather to Nectria 
dtploa. The description of the conidia as falcate, and three- to 
five-septate also indicates Nectria diploa, and had the breadth 
of the conidia been given, the description would have been de- 
cisive. Nectria diploa has coloured ascospores, though they are 
yellow rather than brown, and the dimensions given are near 
those of its smaller ascospores. Consequently, if there is no 
other way of deciding what this species was except by guessing 
from the description, I should conclude that it was Nectria 
diploa. Judging from the available collections, the perithecia of 
Nectria diploa are much rarer than those of the various species 
of Sphaerostilbe found on scale insects. 
A conidial specimen kindly forwarded to me under this name 
by Prof. Hara, collected on Aspidiotus on Pyrus, Shizuoka, 
June 20, 1919, is Sphaerostilbe aurantiucola (B. and Br.). The 
synnemata are pulvinate, but a few are very shortly stalked. 
The conidia are almost straight with falcate tips, and multi- 
septate. 4 Viele 
Nectria variabilis Hara. 
This species was found ona Coccid on Sasa paniculatain the Gifu 
Prefecture, Japan. I have not been able to examine a specimen. 
According to the original description, the sporodochia are 
erumpent (sic), irregular, orange-red or rose-coloured, mostly 
one to two, rarely three, on a scale, 0-5—1 mm. diameter. The 
conidiophores are filiform, septate, branched at the base, 
2°5-3m diameter. The conidia are fusariuform, three- to five- 
septate, 60-70 x 5-6; and filiform paraphyses, hyaline, sep- 
tate, 2-2-5 » diameter are present. The perithecia are produced 
at the base of the sporodochia or on a stroma, and are globose 
or elliptic, with a papillate ostiolum, solitary or clustered, 
smooth, carinous (stc) membranaceous, orange-red, 270-300 jz 
diameter. The asci are cylindrico-clavate, apex rounded, stipt- 
tate, eight-spored, 130-150 x II-I3 , accompanied by filiform 
paraphyses, 1-1-5 yw thick. The ascospores are uniseriate, fusi- 
form or elliptical, one-septate, slightly or not constricted, 
16-22 x 6-gp, hyaline or yellow. 
Hara’s figures show conidia slightly but regularly curved, and 
ascospores narrow-oval to subcymbiform. His figure of the 
whole fungus is unrecognisable. From his figures and descrip- 
tion of the conidia, they belong to Pseudomicrocera Henningsit, 
though the breadth is rather too large. The ascospores described 
and figured are those of Nectria diploa, but the description of 
the perithecium does not fit. The balance of evidence is in 
ae of the supposition that this species also is Nectria diploa 
. and C. 
