Studies in Entomogenous Fungi. T. Petch. I5I 
globose, 0-5 mm. diameter, white, or brownish white, floccose, 
with an outer coat of interwoven hyphae and numerous free 
spreading hyphae. The latter are 3-4 w diameter, thick-walled, 
somewhat irregular, up to 150p long, and sometimes united 
into fascicles. The asci measure up to 230 x 20p. The para- 
physes exhibit distinct light and dark lengths, a feature which 
may also be observed in Ophionectria coccicola, though it is not 
so prominent in that species. Extruded spores from one ascus 
measured 74-86 x 6-8 w; in another ascus one spore was only 
66 » long. The spores are fusoid, apex subacute, base strongly 
attenuated, up to 14-septate. 
Although I have not seen the type specimen of Ophionectria 
‘Auranit, I have little hesitation in referring Op/ionectria 
tetraspora to that species. In the Formosan specimens, the 
free hyphae appear to be less profusely developed than in the 
Brazilian specimens described by von Hohnel. 
Parkin recorded, from Ceylon, a Calonectria on Mytilaspis 
citricola on orange, and another on Chionaspis vitis on Loranthus. 
Of the former, he stated that the perithecia were pale brown, 
on a small mat of hyphae, with asci 70-84 x 6-8 y, and spindle- 
shaped ascospores, with two conspicuous and two inconspicuous 
septa, 30-46 x 65-7. The perithecia of the latter were dark 
- brown, 320m diameter, with asci 85 x 16m, and five-septate 
spores, 55 X 7:5. These specimens are not now available, but 
it would appear probable that they were immature Podoneciria, 
and from the dimensions of the spores, Podonectria Aurantit. 
Podonectria echinata n.sp. 
This species was collected on Lepidosaphes on Pumelo (Citrus 
nobilis) at Peradeniya, October 191g. Its conidial stage re- 
sembles that of Podonectria Auranti, but the perithecia appear 
sufficiently distinct to constitute a new species. 
The stroma is purple-brown, of matted hyphae, not extending 
far beyond the scale in the specimens available. The majority 
of the stromata bear perithecia only. The perithecia (Plate IV, 
fig. 7) are scattered or clustered, globose, about 0-15 mm. dia- 
meter, ostiolum not evident, pale yellow, covered with pro- 
jecting, white, triangular, or conical fascicles of hyphae up to 
200 » long, and 20 diameter. The hyphae of the stroma are 
hyaline, about 4 » diameter and thick-walled: those of the pro- 
jecting fascicles are about 3 » diameter, and are united into a 
parallel bundle. These bundles arise as isolated tufts from the 
perithecial wall. The wall of the perithecium is hyaline, rather 
thin, and composed of somewhat small cells. The asci vary in the 
same way as those of Podonectria coccicola. They are clavate, 
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