Studies in Entomogenous Fungi. T. Petch. 159 
subtranslucent, sometimes with a few yellow granules, usually 
smooth, subglobose or subconoid, 0-2—0-25 mm. diameter, col- 
lapsing laterally; ostiolum papillate or not elevated; asci 
cylindro-clavate, scarcely pedicellate, eight-spored, spores uni- 
seriate or obliquely uniseriate, 66—go x 6-8 ~; paraphyses dif- 
fluent ; ascospores oval, obtuse, hyaline to yellowish, one-septate, 
not constricted, wall rather thick and minutely warted, 9-14 x 
4-6 b. 
Synnemata stilboid or clavate, up to 2mm. high, 0-4 mm. 
diameter below, 0-6 mm. diameter above, or flattened pulvinate, 
sessile, up to 0-6 mm. long, 0-4 mm. broad, orange red to blood 
red, subtranslucent, becoming hard and horny when dry, 
arising from a narrow yellowish white loose stroma; conidia 
narrow cylindric, tapering at the ends, straight or slightly 
curved, ends falcate, hyaline or yellowish, up to eleven-septate, 
septa usually distinct, 70-120 x 5-7 4. A small strongly curved 
Fusarium conidium, three-septate, obtuse, hyaline, 12-18 « 3-4 p 
is often present. 
Distribution. Ceylon; India; Madagascar; Japan; Formosa; 
Dominica (W.I.); Georgia (U.S.A.); Florida (U.S.A.); Italy. 
Sphaerostilbe flammea Tul., Selecta Carp. Fung. I, p. 130 
(1861); Stilbum flammeum Tul., Acta hebdom. Acad. Sci. par., 
XLIZ, p. 704, et Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 4, vol. v (1856), p. 114; 
Nectria muscivora Berk., Ravenel, Fungi Car. Exsicc., No. 57, 
non Nectria muscivora B. and Br., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 2, 
vol. vil, p. 188 (1851); Nectria laeticolor B. and C., Jour. Linn. 
Soc. X (1868), p. 377; Nectria aglaothele B. and C., Grevillea Iv, 
p. 45 (1875); Nectria subcoccinea Sacc. and Ellis, Michelia, 11, 
p. 570 (1882); Nectria Passeriniana Cooke, Grevillea, XII, p. 81 
(1884) ; Sphaerostilbe coccophila Tul. (1865), quoad Desmaziéres, 
Plantes Crypt. de France, Ed. 1, Ser. 1, No. 1350 and Ed. 1, 
Ser. I, No. 1750. 
Conidial stage—Microcera coccophila Desm., Ann. Sci. Nat., 
Ser. 3, vol. X (1848), p. 539; Atvactium flammeum Berk. and Rav. 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 2, vol. x11 (1854), p. 461; Microcera 
pluriseptata Cke. and Massee, Grevillea, XVII, p. 43; ? Fusarium 
coccinellum (Kalch.) Thuem., Mycotheca Univ., No. 782, Fusi- 
sporium coccinellum Kalch., Flora, L1x (1876), p. 426. 
Exsiccati. Desmaziéres, Plantes Cryptogames de France, 
Ed. 1, Ser. 1, No. 1750, and Ed. 1, Ser. 1, No. 1350; Ravenel, 
Fungi Car. Exsicc., No. 57 and v. No. 86; Fungi Cubenses 
Wrightiani, No. 765; Ellis, North American Fungi, Nos. 1229 
and 1333; Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc., No. 350, and Ed. u, 
No. 534; ? Thuemen, Mycotheca Univ., No. 782. 
Perithecia usually clustered on a well-developed plectenchy- 
matous stroma, bright orange red, darker round the ostiolum, 
