1916] 
Emic—Yeast FUNGI 204 
Solomon Islands—was described by Patrick Manson as 
‘‘tinea imbricata.’’ In the characteristic lesions Tribondeau 
found spore-bearing organs similar to the conidiophores of 
Aspergillus, but he was not sure of this determination and 
therefore called the fungus "7 Lepidophyton.’’ This, however, 
did not clear up the situation. Fortunately, Wehmer (’04) 
obtained a culture of this organism and found it to be a new 
species of Aspergillus. The fungus develops in the epidermal 
tissues of the body and extremities. The lesions have much 
the appearance of ringworm and also occur in superficial 
cancer ulcerations. 
STERIGMATOCYSTIS 
S. nigra Van Tieg. Soc. Bot. Fr., Bul. 24:102. 1877. 
Evidently a species easily recognized by the dark brown 
color of the conidial masses; conidiophores very crowded, 
2 mm. high; pedicel about 18 in diameter, with walls 24 
thick, hyaline; terminations globose to subglobose, 80» in 
diameter, with conidia 130. in diameter; numerous sterig- 
mata on all sides, radially arranged, very slender, branched; 
primary sterigmata clavate, 26 X 4.54; secondary sterigmata 
8 X Зи; conidia in long chains, small, spherical, smooth, or 
echinulate in old cultures, 2.5-4. p, violet-brown; hyphae 
Зи in diameter. 
This species was cited for the first time as a parasite by 
Cramer, while soon after Fürbringer (776) reported the same 
fungus occurring in the lungs of a man. Wreden describes 
a mould frequent in otomyeosis which he termed Aspergillus 
nigricans, but according to Siebenmann (’89) it is Sterig- 
matocystis nigra, probably the same fungus that Costantin 
and Lucet (703) reported under the name of S. pseudonigra. 
Lucet, Costantin, and others have found that S. migra is non- 
pathogenie for animals. 
SACCHAROMYCES 
S. anginea Troisier & Achalme, Archiv. d. Méd. Exp. et 
d'Anat. Path. 5:29-37. 1893. 
The first observation of a parasitie yeast in man is that 
of Troisier and Achalme (793) in a patient with a condition 
