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were hyaline, sickle-shaped, sometimes straight, acute at both 
ends, one- to three-septate, 17-19 x 2°5 y», borne terminally and 
laterally on the conidiophores. 
The type specimen was scanty, and it is now represented by 
two slides in Herb. Victoria. From these slides and McAlpine’s 
figures, it would appear that the fungus formed a thin byssoid 
stroma which spread over the scale and from the scale over the 
host plant. The margin of the stroma shows a fringe of conidio- 
phores, but the main mass of the conidiophores appears to have 
been compact, and to have formed a sporodochium, parenchy- 
matous at the base, bearing close-packed conidiophores, either 
simple, or branched at the base, or repeatedly branched. The 
latter resemble the conidiophore figured by Sawada for Fusarium 
Aspidioti. The conidia (Plate V, fig. 19) are usually terminal 
on the branches, but a few arise laterally below the septa, the 
branch apparently being suppressed. The conidiophores are up 
to 50 high. The conidia vary from almost straight with falcate 
tips to uniformly and strongly curved; they are three-septate, 
with obtuse tips. The curved conidium resembles that found 
in Sphaerostilbe aurantiucola. 
* PATOUILLARDIELLA. 
A fungus referable to this genus has been found on an 
Aleyrodid in Ceylon on one occasion. Its description is as 
follows: 
Patouillardiella Aleyrodis n.sp. 
Sporodochia superficial, oval in plan, flattened pulvinate, up to 
0-7 mm. long, 0-5 mm. broad, and 0-3 mm. high, orange, central 
mass of spores slightly darker, waxy, towards the edge radiately 
floccose, with a fimbriate margin. Base of ‘sporodochium paren- 
chymatous. Conidiophores short, stout, once or twice branched, 
segments slightly inflated. Conidia hyaline, cylindric, ends 
rounded, one-septate, not constricted, 12-18 x 1*5—2°5 p. 
oe an Aleyrodid on Ochlandra, Gikiyanakande, Ceylon, June 
1916. 
Trabut, in Bull. Agric. Alger et Tunisie, 1907, p. 32, described 
Microcera Parlatoriae which occurred on Parlatoria zizyphi on 
orange, Algiers, Oct. 1907. I am indebted to Prof. Patouillard 
for the record of this species and an authentic specimen from 
Trabut. The sporodochia are discoid, flat, circular, or pulvinate, 
100-200 ». diameter, compact, now orange yellow, with a slight 
byssoid basal weft of hyphae, situated on or at the side of the 
scale. The conidiophores are of the same type as in Fusarium 
epicoccum, but the branches are slightly thinner. The conidia 
are stout, one- to three-septate, slightly curved, or strongly 
curved, or hooked, 16-21 x 3:5-4q, and are identical with 
