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et Ev.) Berl. et Vogl. and 0. fdra.^pora sp. n. Of tliese, Sphaerostilhe 

 coccopJula l.iH tl.e widest disti-ibi.ti()n, extonding as far north as ITokkai<lo. 

 Aschrrxoiun .narfjiaaUi and .Ucl>. ^uzuhU liavr alx. boon f.-und outside uf the 



Vci-y liulo lia> boon done concorniiig tlio rosoarol.rs on coooophilous Wm^i 

 in Japan. In 1901, II. Nomura (18)* piiblisliod tlio rosuK ol" liis study 

 on the "S(!arlet-tuniriKS disc^aso" of scale-insects. As liis paper was written in 

 Japanese, it did not draw the attention of the scientific world, whic-h it de- 

 servos. ?To doeribed tliere a new spe<-ies of Xectria under the na.no of T rtria 

 coccopJ.ih wliicli i< parasitic on A^pidioi pcrniciosus hifostinir ])ear-troe'^ in 

 Gifu, and aI.o on BUi^pl^ p- nUnjona infesting mulberry-trees in Toyama. 



paper {'^'1) do,-ori1)ing \<('fri<i coccUlophthora from Java. These two species, 

 although clo.Mdy related, are decidedly distinct, juolging from the descriptions 

 and figures u-iven by the authors. 



A(cordiim- t.t Xoiuura, ilie sporodochia of his species is not stilboid, 

 but ..f iiTCLHilar-hnpid protulnrances of the type of Tubercular ia. By compar- 

 ing it witli the liuures nf Sphai'rodUbc eoceophila by Rolfs (21), he came 

 to the conclu-ion, thai the JapuneM- nnd Florida forms seem to belong to one 

 and the same species, an<l that b.tli of tlum are quite distinct from the 

 typical ^phacroHtilbr cocrophUn . .f T u 1 a s n e s (29). :M a t s u m u r a (1 6) and 

 Shirai (27) mi-took the autlior's view, when they considered that No- 

 mura's fungus .honld b3 called by the name <.f Xecbia eoceophila (Tul.) 



