Studies in Entomogenous Fungi. 1. Petch. 153 
BROOMELLA. 
Broomella Ichnaspidis Zimm. 
This species was described from specimens on Ichnaspis fili- 
formis on leaves of Elaeis and Coffea liberica, collected at 
Buitenzorg, Java. The following details are taken from 
Zimmermann’s description and figure. 
The fungus forms a stroma, about 0-8 mm. diameter, which 
partly envelopes the scale insect and extends slightly beyond it. 
The stroma is fleshy and bears protuberances, more or less 
cylindric and curved, up to 0-5 mm. high. Numerous globose 
perithecia occur in each stroma; they are at first embedded in 
the protuberances, but when mature become free for about 
half their height. The outer layers of the stroma are colourless 
and translucent, the inner layers blood red, the colouring matter 
being held by a finely granular substance and fading on heating 
with chloral hydrate. 
The perithecia are sharply defined from the stromatic tissue; 
on heating with chloral hydrate the external part of the peri- 
thecial wall, and especially the ostiolum, remains dark brown. 
The asci are somewhat curved, eight-spored, 95-120» long. 
The ascospores are hyaline, appearing faintly brownish in the 
ascus, multiseptate (up to 15), linear, generally somewhat curved, 
almost as long as the ascus, 4—5 pw in diameter, tapering towards 
the base. 
Zimmermann also described a variety major, which occurred 
on a Diaspid on leaves of Pzerardia at Buitenzorg. It differed 
in having asci up to 170 pw long, and ascospores up to 155 p long, 
approximately of equal thickness at either end. 
I have not met with any specimens of this species. It is clear 
that the fungus is not a Broomella, but nearer a Podonectria 
with a well-developed stroma. It differs from Podonectria in 
having the perithecia partly embedded in the stroma. The 
spore figured by Zimmermann resembles that of Podonectria 
coccicola. The description of the colour of the perithecium recalls 
that of Calonectria coccidophaga, but that of the spores is quite 
different. 
FUSARIUM. 
Fusarvum epicoccum was described by McAlpine in Fungus 
Diseases of Citrus Fruits in Australia (1899). It was found on 
Red Scale, Asfidiotus aurantit, on branches of Mandarin orange 
at Burnley, near Melbourne. 
McAlpine stated that it grew round the margin and on the 
top of the scale, usually forming crescent-shaped, effused, pale 
brick-red masses. The hyphae (? conidiophores) were hyaline, 
septate, branched, slender, 2:5-3:5 diameter. The conidia 
