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On Fungi Parasitic on
Scale-Insects found in Formosa.
By
Kingo Miyabe, SD., Rigakuhakushi
Professor of Botany, College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University, Sapporo,
and
Kaneyoshi Sawada

Phytopathologist to the Agricultural Experiment Station, Government of Formosa.

Ne cieene

The present study was made, in the Botanical Institute of our College
during the spring and summer of 1912, on the materials brought over from
Formosa by one of the authors. ‘The materials had been collected by the
Station-staff during a period extending over more than five years. To most
of the specimens are attached short notes by Mr. Y. Fujikuro, a member
of the station, recording the shape and size of spores. They were of no little
help to us in pursuing our study.

On account of the imperfect conditions of their specimens, we have left
some species unrecorded in the present contribution. They will be treated
in a future paper together with the fungi parasitic on scale-insects found in
other parts of our country.

In this paper, the following seven species are described ; viz., Aschersonia
Aleyrodes Webber, A, marginata Ell. et Ev., A. Suzukii sp. n., Sphae-
rostilbe coccophila Tul., Microcera Fujikuroi sp. n., Ophionectria coceicola (Ell.

[Jour. of the College of Agric, Tohoku Imp. Univ., Sapporo. Vol. V. Pt. 3. March, 1913.]

74 K. MIYABE AND K. SAWADA.

et Ey.) Berl. et Vogl. and 0. teraspora sp. n. Of these, Sphaerostilbe
coccophila has the widest distribution, extending as far north as Hokkaido.
Aschersonia marginata and Asch. Suzukii have also been found outside of the
Island of Formosa; the former in Kagoshima, and the latter in Shizuoka
and a few other places.

Very little has been done concerning the researches on coccophilous fungi
in Japan. In 1901, H. Nomura (18)* published the result of his study
on the “scarlet-fungus disease” of scale-insects. As his paper was written in
Japanese, it did not draw the attention of the scientifie world, which it de-
serves. He described there a new species of Nectria under the name of Nectria
coccophila,** which is parasitic on Aspidiotus perniciosus infesting pear-trees in
Gifu, and also on Diaspis pentagona infesting mulberry-trees in Toyama.
It appeared just one month previous to the appearance of Zimmermann’ s
paper (32) describing Nectria ecoecidophthora from Java. These two species,
although closely related, are decidedly distinct, judging from the descriptions
and figures given by the authors.

According to Nomura, the sporodochia of his species is not stilboid,
but of irregular-shaped protuberances of the type of Tubercularia. By compar-
ing it with the figures of Sphaerostilbe coccophila by Rolfs (21), he came
to the conclusion, that the Japanese and Florida forms seem to belong to one
and the same species, and that both of them are quite distinct from the
typical Sphaerostilbe coccophila of Tulasnes (29). Matsumura (16) and
Shirai (27) mistook the author’s view, when they considered that No-
mura’s fungus should be called by the name of Nectria coccophila (T ul.)

The number in brackets denotes the number in the “literature cited” placed at the
end of this paper.
** Nectria coccophila Nomura (18).
Sporodoe re irregularly pulvinate, not sees orange-red, on reddish stroma, some-
of Fusari

times conflue onidia falcate, ype, 3-5-septate, reaching a in length.
Perithecia peers Oe bright sie ed Se on the outer surface of a scale, 3-4
in a group, 260-340p in length and 240-320y in breadth. Asci fusiform, cee Ee

at apex, 90-110ux 8-10, 8-spored. Ascospores in one row, more or less inclined, lig!
brown, 1-septate, slightly inated at septum, 15-20p x 5-6u. Stroma scarlet, oo
in texture.

Hab. On Aspidiotus perniciosus and Diaspis pentagona, infesting Pirus sinensis, and
Morus alba respectively, in Honsiu, Japan.

ON FUNGI PARASITIC ON SCALE-INSECTS FOUND IN FORMOSA. 7h

Nom.

Kuwana (15) in a Special Report on San José Scales records the
presence of Sphaerostilbe coccophila Tul. in different parts of Japan as a
beneficial natural enemy to <Aspidiotus perniciosus, as well as to Diaspis
pentagona. On the latter insect, he found the fungus in question even at the
summit of Mt. Togakushi in Central Japan. These facts seem to indicate
that the fungus is a native of our country and not of a recent introduction.
Although we do not find any definite statement in his report, the author
seems to entertain a view, that the Nomura’s fungus mentioned above is
identical with Sphaerostilbe coecophila Tul.; for he reproduced in plate VIL.
some of the Nomura’s figures of Nectria coccophila to illustrate his fungus.

In 1907, Nishida (17), in his “Diseases of Orange-trees”, touched
upon two species of Aschersonia, which he found parasitic on the scale-insects
infesting the orange-trees in different parts of our country. The one he
called the “black-fungus”, Aschersonia sp., is what we have identified in the
present paper with A. marginata Ell. et Ev.; and the other, the “red-
fungus”, he referred to A. Aleyrodes Webber. Judging from the figures
and brief descriptions of the fungus, however, we are inclined to regard it as
identical with our new species, A. Suzukit. It was found parasitic on Aspi-
diotus aurantii in Honsiu, Kiusiu and Riukiu.

Sawada (24, 25), in 1911, reports on the coccophilous nature of Septo-
basidium albidum Pat. and S. Acaciae Sawada. The former is the cause of
the “plaster-disease” of camphor-trees, while the latter that of Acacia confusa
Merr. as well as of Citrus nobilis Lour. and Glochidion obovatum S. et
Z. in Formosa. They are not directly parasitic on the host-plants, no trace
of the mycelium being found in their tissues. According to the author, the
mycelium of these fungi grows and develops at first on the excretions of seale-
insects, which are finally completely overgrown and killed by the thick subi-
culum of the fungus.

Shortly before the publication of Sawada’s paper on Septobasidium, a
short preliminary note on the biology of the genus by T. Petech (20) ap-
peared. The author announces the discovery of the coccidophagous habit of
several species of Septobasidium found in Ceylon and also in North America.

76 K. MIYABE AND K. SAWADA.

In every instance, he invariably found beneath the subiculum of the fungus
a colony of scale-insects entirely overgrown and destroyed by the mycelium.
He seems to regard, that the fungus is from the beginning purely parasitic
on scale-insects, and that it does not require a preliminary nourishment on
their excretions, as Sawada has pointed out.

Quite recently, Sa wada (26) has also shown that Helicobasidium Tanakae
Miyabe, which causes a “plaster-disease” on the branches of Morus alba,
Prunus Mume, P. communis, P. Persica, P. serrulatus, Pirus sinensis and
Broussonetia papyrifera, behaves similar to his Septobasidium in Formosa.
In these cases, Diaspis pentagona is concerned with the development and
growth of the fungus.

Practically nothing has been done so far in our country in the way of
controlling the ravages of scale-insects by means of the artificial infection of
their fungus-parasites. Nomura (18) succeeded in making artificial cultures
of his Nectria and recommended its employment for such a practical end.

From the time Webber (31) suggested the economic importance of
these fungi, many American botanists and entomologists, especially those
connected with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, have been ac-
tively engaged in perfecting the method of artificial infection. The names of
Rolfs (21, 22), Gossard (12), Forbes (11), Fawcett (10) and Berger

(1-5) should be mentioned in connection with this interesting work.

Aschersonia Aleyrodis Webber. (Pl. VI. fig. 1-7)

Webber, in U.S. Dep’t. Agric. Div. of Veg. Phys. and Path. Bull. 13,
(1897), p. 20; Rolfs and Faweett, Florida Agric. Exp. Stat. Bull. 94,
(1908), p. 15; Fawcett, Special Studies. No. 1. Univ. of the State of Flo-
rida. (1908), pp. 10-17; Saccardo, Syll. Fungorum, 14, (1899) p. 991.

Aschersonia tahitensis W ebbe'r, in Jour. of Mycology, 7, (1894), p. 363;
Swingle & Webber, Div. Veg. Phys. and Path. Bull. 8, (1896), p. 27.

Stroma hypophyllous, depressed hemispherical, yellowish-white to cream

colored, coriaceous, 1-3 mm. in diameter, sclerotioid formed of thick-walled

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mycelium 3.5-8% in diameter, and provided with mycelial hypothallus of
grayish white color, forming a thin membrane adhering to the leaf surface
and extending 1-2.5mm. beyond the stroma. Pyenidia immersed in the
stroma, irregular in shape, and opening by small round or elliptical pores or
slits at the surface ; conidiophores filiform, much branched, continuous, densely
packed together, 55-70” x 1p; paraphyses similar to the conidiophore in shape,
projecting beyond them, 85-108 long; stylospores fusiform, continuous,
mucilaginous, hyaline, 11-13 x 1-1.5y, often oozing out in ochraceous spore-
masses,

Has.—On Parlatoria zizyphi (Lucas) Sign. infesting the leaf of Citrus
nobilis Lour.

formosa: Seira, Kagi. Nov. 13, 1909. (K. Sawada, Nov. 18, 1909).

Disrris. North America, Cuba and Japan.

REMARKS. Our fungus corresponds so closely in almost all important
characters with the descriptions and figures of Aschersonia Aleyrodis of North
America, that we are led to think it more appropriate to consider them for
the present as one and the same rather than to treat ours as a distinct
species. 2

In the Formosan fourm the paraphyses are also always present. They
are very delicately filiform, and continuous with dense homogeneous refringent
contents. In many of these paraphyses, we noticed interspersed here and
there portions devoid of the contents, which appear under a microscope as
darkened sections. (PI. VI. fig. 4). Some of the paraphiyses are seen to have
lost almost all of their refringent contents. These vacant spaces sometimes
collapse giving to the filament an appearance of a series of short cells. What
Webber (31) considered as characteristic darkened cells is no more than the
vacant sections in a filiform cell. The conidiophores are not simple but
irregularly dichotomous or trichotomous, and their ultimate branchlets are
subulate and 10-26 in length. (Pl. VI. fig. 5,6).

The color of the spore-mass in our dried specimens is generally ochrace-
ous. As we have not yet examined fresh material with sufficient care, we
could not say that the mass presents a conspicuous coral-red or rufus color as
described by Webber and others.

78 K. MIYABE AND K. SAWADA.

In Floridia, the present fungus has been successfully employed for control-
ling the white-fly (Aleyrodes citri) infesting orange trees.

Aschersonia Aleyrodis has been known so far only from the Southern
States of the United States and West Indies. Among Parkin’s (19) Ceylon
forms of Aschersonia, there are some which are said to resemble the W ebber’s
species; of which the forma 1. approaches most closely to our plant. They

may prove identical after a careful comparative study.

Aschersonia marginata Ell. et Ey. (PI. VI. fig. 8-15).

_ Ellis & Everhart, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 22, (1895), p. 436;
Saceardo, Sylloge Fungorum, 14, (1899), p. 989.

Aschersonia sp. Nishida, Diseases of Orange-trees. (1907), p. 76.

Stroma amphigenous or caulicolous, sessile, adnate, hemispherical to
depressed subspherical, dark to black colored, narrowly marginate around the
base or not, smooth or somewhat verrucose, 1-5 mm. in diameter, interior
cream-colored, sclerotioid formed of thick-walled mycelium, 4-8» in diameter.
Pyenidia irregular in shape, 4-19, immersed in the stroma, orening by small
roundish pores at the surface, 40-300 in diameter; conidiophores filiform,
subumbellately branched, continuous, densely packed together, 18-304 x 1p;
stylospores fusiform, small, continuous, hyaline, 6-84x1-1.54. Paraphyses
wanting.

Has. On Coecus longulus Doug. and Parlatoria zizyphi (Lucas)
Sign. infesting Citrus nobilis Lour. and Psidium Guyava L.

Formosa: Tennaiho, Taihoku, on Citrus nobilis (Inao Nitobe, May
1, 1911; Y. Fujikuro, May 8, 1911). Roppo, Giran, on Psidium Guyava
(R. Suzuki, Feb. 29, 1908).

Distris. Sandwich Islands and Japan.

Remarks. Ellis and Everhart (9) in describing the present species
were not aware of the fact that the fungus is entomogenous. ‘The original
specimens were collected by Heller on the living leaves of a species of
Psidium in the Sandwich Islands.

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Our specimens, which correspond exactly to the description given by
Ellis and Everhart, were collected also on Psidium as well as on the
species of Citrus. In our cases, the fungus is parasitic on scale-insects in
every instance.

The stroma is generally dark or black colored on the surface, but this
colored portion can easily be wiped off with a wet cloth, exposing a smooth
amber colored surface. In all our specimens, the fungus is always accompanied
by a sooty mold, which covers the surface of both leaves and stems to a
greater or less extent. The blackened color of the stroma, in the present
case, may be due to the overgrowth of a sooty mold, and not to the color
of its rind cells. Ellis and Everhart (9) seem to have noticed this
particular character, when they described the color of the stroma as somewhat
black (or yellow in a living state ?)

The marginate character of the stroma is not constant. Among the
stromata formed on Parlatoria zizyphi infesting Psidium Guyava, the margi-
nate ones are less than the immaginate, while on those on Citrus, the case
is just the opposite, the marginate ones being predominent. The marginate
stroma is generally hemispherical in shape, while the immarginate one is
mostly depressedly subspherical (Pl. VI. fig. 8-11).

The conidiophores are so densely packed together that their mode of
branching is not easily observable in even a very thin section ; but it becomes
evident, when such a section is flattened out by a pressure given under a
cover-glass. The branching is almost in all cases subumbellate, the number
of the branches varying from 3 to 5. The branches are relatively short
and of about the same length. They are finely subulate, and 10-16 in
length (Pl. VI. fig. 14).

The present fungus parasitic on Parlatoria zizyphi infesting Citrus
nobilis was collected also by Nishida (17) in Kagoshima, Kiusiu, in
May 1903. He gives a short description and figures of the fungus in the
work cited above.

80 K. MIYABE AND K. SAWADA.

Aschersonia Suzukii Miyabe et Sawada, sp. nov.
(Pl. VI. fig. 16-23.)

Aschersonia Aleyrodis Nishida, Diseases of Orange-trees, p. 80.

Stroma scattered or more or less clustered, ramicolous or amphigenous,
cream to cinnamon colored, hemispherical, subspherical, conico— or subtrun-
cato—hemispherical, smooth, then irregularly verrucose, 1-4 mm. in diame-
ter, marginate around the base, with rather thick light colored hypothallus,
interior similarly colored, sclerotioid composed of mycelium 3 — 6y in diameter.
Pycnidia 4—16, immersed in the stroma, irregular in shape, 130-270» in
diameter, and opening by small pores and slits on the surface ; conidiophores
filiform, simple or sparsely branched, densely packed together, continuous,
22 — 56” x 1p; stylospores fusiform, continuous, mucilaginous, hyaline or
light orange-colored, acute at both ends, 8-11 x 2.5-—3.54. Papaphyses
wanting.

Has. Parasitic on Coceus longulus Doug. infesting the living leaves
and branches of Citrus nobilis our. and Fagara nitida Roxb.

Formosa: Ako, on Citrus nobilis (R. Suzuki, Oct. 28, 1908). Roku-
masan, Kagi, on Citrus nobilis (Y. Nambu, Nov. 26, 1909). Tennaiho,
Taihoku, on Fagara nitida (Y. Fujikura, Oct. 3, 1911).

Remarks. Our fungus is very colosely related to Aschersonia Eugeniae
Koord. (14), parasitic on a scale-insect on the living leaves and branches
of Eugenia in Java.

The points of difference between the Javanese and Formosan forms
are as follows :—

1. In the shape and length of conidiophores. In our form, the conidio-
phores are longer, and are simple or sparsely branched, gradually tapering
toward the tip and densely packed together, and are not fusiformly swollen
at the tip, and not so loose nor uniformly simple as they are represented
in the Koorder’s figures. The mode of branching of the conidiophore is
not constant. It is more often dichotomous apparently in a sympodial
manner or rarely trichotomous. (PI. VI. fig. 22 — 23).

2. In the color of the stroma, our fungus is cream-colored when young,

ON FUNGI PARASITIC ON SCALE-INSECTS FOUND IN FORMOSA. 81

turning to cinnamon-color as it matures, but is not exactly orange-colored.

3. In the shape and size of the stroma, our form is quite variable.
In shape it ranges from semispherical to subspherical, some approaching to
conico— or subtruncato—hemispherical, provided always with a narrow
rather thick light colored hypothallial margin. The surface of the stroma is
not always smooth but becomes irregularly verrucose, when the inner pyenidia
become matured. In size, our fungus is decidedly larger, the largest ones
measuring 4 mm. in diameter. (Pl. VI. fig. 16 — 20).

4, In the shape and size of the conidia, these two forms coincide fairly
closely. In our form, however, the conidia are always straight, and are
not so curved as represented in one of the Koorder’s figures. (Pl. VI.
fig. 21).

These two species are certainly most closely related. But judging from
the Koorder’s description and figures, we are rather inclined to regard
our fungus as quite distinct from his Aschersonia Eugeniae.

We have the pleasure of associating this new fungus with the name of
the first collector of the fungus in Formosa, Mr. Rikiji Suzuki, the
late phytopathologist to the Agricultural Experiment Station, Taihoku,
Formosa.

Aschersonia Suzukii seems to be widely distributed in Japan. It has
recently been found on scale-insects infesting orange-trees in the Province of
Suruga. What Nishida (17) thought to be Aschersonia Aleyrodis Webber,
is apparently of the present species. The shape of the sporodochia and
marginate stroma shown in his figures coincide closely with our fungus.
According to the author, it is parasitic on Aspidiotus aurantii infesting
orange-trees in Fukuoka, Shimane and Riukiu.

- Sphaerostilbe coccophila Tul. (Pl. VII. fig. 1-5).
Tulasnes, Carpologia, 8 (1865) p. 105; Saccardo, Syll. Fung.

2, p. 5138; Rolfs, Fl. Agr. Exp. St. Bull. 41; Rolfs, & Fawcett,
Fl. Agr. Exp. St. Bull. 94, p. 8; Fawcett, Special Stud. No. 1. p. 25.

82 K. MIYABE AND K. SAWADA.

Microcera coccophila Desm., Ann. Se. Nat. 3. Sér. 10, (1848), p. 359;
Tulasnes, 1. c p. 105; Saccardo, Syll. Fung. 4, p. 727.

Sporodochia obovoid to clavate, variable in shape, scarlet, single or
subcespitose at the margin of a scale, 0.6-1.5 mm. in length, with or
without a pinkish flattened stroma at the base. Conidiophores long, filiform,
septate, branched at the base, 83-4y in diam. Conidia long, fusarioid,
slightly curved, or straight with somewhat faleate ends, hyaline or very
light pinkish, 5 ~ 9-septate, 74-1354 x 4—- 9p.

Perinthecia formed at the base of sporodochia or on stroma, ovoid, glo-
bose or ellipsoidal, with short thick obtuse papilla, single or cespitose or
sometimes 2—3 coalescent, bright red, smooth, 262-365 x 194 - 320n;
asci cylindical, rounded at apex, 96-1134 x 8 — 10; ascospores ellipsoidal
or ovoid-ellipsoidal, 1-septate, hyaline, 8-104 x 4—- 5p.

Has. Parasitic on Parlatoria zizypht (Lucas) Sign., Mytilaspis
gloverti (Pack.) Comst., and Aspidiotus ficus Comst., infesting Citrus
nobilis Lour., Ficus Wightiana Wall., and Thea chinensis Sims.

Formosa: On Citrus nobilis, Taihoku, Tennaiho (Y. Fujikura, Feb.
24, 1911; March 1, 1911); Koteisho (K. Sawada, April 25, 1911);
Shirin, (K. Sawada, March 5, 1911). Shinchiku, Shimpo, (Y. Fujikuro,
May 4, 1910; Jan. 1, 1911). Tainan, Mato (K. Sawada. Oct. 28, 1908).
On Ficus Wightiana, Taihoku, Sdzan (K. Sawada, May, 1911). On Thea
chinensis, Taihoku, Sdzan (IX. Sawada, May, 1911).

Distris. Europe, Asia (Japan and Ceylon), Africa, N. America, West
Indies and Australia.

Remarks. This fungus has also been found in other parts of Japan.
K. Sawada collected it on a scale-insect infesting Prunus Persica at Mo-
rioka, Prov. Rikuchu, in 1912. In the vicinity of Sapporo, S. Kuwaya-
ma found the same fungus in 1907 on Mytilaspis pomorum infesting apple-
trees. Apparantly the present species is the most common fungus-para-
site on different kinds of scale-insects in Japan, and is actually serving as
an effective natural means for controlling their ravages and spread.

It is extremely rare to find it in its ascosporous stage in Formosa as
well as in other parts of Japan, the conidial being the usual form, by

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which the fungus seems to be propagating. In only one instance, have we
met with its perithecia, that is, on scale-insects infesting the tea-plant at
Sozan in 1911.

With no small degree of diffidence, we identify here our fungus with

Se Se ee

Sphaerostilbe coccophila Tul. There are some points in its characteristics,
which do not coincide exactly with the description of the European type.

We shall leave further remarks on this fungus for a future occasion.

Microcera Fujikuroi Mi yabe et Sawada, sp. nov.
(Pl. VIL. fig. 6 — 10)

Stroma well developed around the base and over a part of the surface
of a scale, 0.7-—1 mm. in breadth, and light rose- to flesh-colored. Sporodo-
chia conical, acute, projecting horizontally or slightly obliquely upward from
the marginal stroma, 1-3 to a scale, 0.5 mm. in length, and rose-colored,
Conidiophores filiform, septate, branched at the base, 3y in diameter,
Conidia faleate or crescent-shaped, long, narrow, hyaline, 5-6 -—septate,
67-95 x 3.5-4.5y,

Has. On Aspidiotus fieus Comst. infesting Citrus nobilis Lour.

Formosa: Koteisho, Taihoku (Y. Fnjikuro, Feb. 29, 1908; K,
Sawada, April 25, 1911). Shimpo. Shinchiku (Y. Fujikuro, May 7,
1910; Jan. 1, 1911). Naiho, Ako, (K. Sawada, Nov. 7, 1909). Sensodho,
Hozan (T. Kawakami, Oct. 30, 1906).

Remarks. The most remarkable character of this fungus is its effect
on the host, changing the projecting central portion of the scale into a
brilliant scarlet color, which is especially intense at the middle, fading
gradually toward the periphery.

This species is commonly found throughout the Island of Formosa,

often associated with Microcera coccophila Desm. on the same leaf. They
can easily be distinguished from each other by the shape and color of the
sporodochia.

The present fungus resembles closely some of the Ceylon forms of Mi-

84 K. MIYABE AND K. SAWADA.

erocera described by Parkin (19), especially the form (b.). These two
forms, the Formosan and Ceylon, resemble each other in the following charac-
ters; viz.— a conspicuous develpment of the stroma, the shape, color and
sparsity of the sporodochia, and the shape and size.of the conidia, provided
the figure 66 of the Plate IV. in the Parkin’s paper (19) represent the
conidia of his form (b.). As the host insects differ in species in these two
forms, their effect on the host may not necessarily be identical. Whether
the shell of Aonidia bullata attacked by Microcera f. (b.) Parkin is simi-
larly affected as in the case of the Formosan Aspidiotus or not, could not be
ascertained from the brief description given.

From these considerations, we may safely regard our form as a new
species, for which we propose the name Microcera Fujikuroi, in honor of Mr.
Y. Fujikuro, an assistant-mycologist to the Agricultural Experiment
Station, Taihoku, Formosa, who has devoted much time and attention to
the collection and study of the fungi parasitic on the scale-insects in

Formosa.

Ophionectria coccicola (E11. et Ey.) Berl. et Vogl.
(Pl. VIL. fig. 11-16)

Berlese et Voglino, Add. Syll. Fung. (1886), p. 218; Saccardo,
Syll. Fung. 9, (1891), p. 996; Zimmermann, Centralbl. f. Bakt, 2.
Abt. 7, (1901), p. 872; Rolfs & Fawcett, Florida Agric. Exp’t. St.
Bull. 94. (1908), p. 11.

Nectria coccicola Ell. et Ev., Jour. Mycol. 2, (1886), p. 39.

Sporodochia globose to obovoid, rounded or sometimes obscurely lacerate
at the apex, one or two from the margin of a scale, grayish, 06-2 mm. in
diameter. Conidiophores densely packed together, simple, moniliform, bear-
ing 3 conidia on each apical cell. Conidia become free connected together
by the apical cell; single conidium filiform-lanceolate, long acuminate, hya-
line, 16-27-septate, 124-210” x 6-8y.

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height and 0.3 mm. in diameter. Asci fasciculate, eylindrical-clavate, rounded
at the apex, hyaline, 189-2804 x 17-20. Paraphyses filiform, hyaline,
of about the same length as asci. Ascospores 8 in au ascus, cylindrical-
clavate, hyaline to straw-colored, 20 — 24—septate, 75-165y x 6-84.

Has. On Parlatoria zizyphi (Lucas) Sign., Aspidiotus _ficus
Comst., Mytilaspis gloverti (Pack.) Comst. and Mytilaspis citricola
(Pack.) Comst. infesting Citrus nobilis Lour.

Formosa: Koteisho, Taihoku, (K. Sawada, April 25,1911). Shimpo,
Shinchiku, (Y. Fujikuro, May 6, 1911). |

Distrip. North and South America, West Indies, Japan, Java and
South Africa.

Remarks. The present species is rather common in Formosa on
different scale-insects infesting the orange-leaves, but is not so common as
Sphaerostilbe coccophila. With us, both the ascosporous and conidial stages
are found. Their characters coincide very closely with the descriptions given
by Ellis and Everhart (8), and also by Zimmermann (32). Only
in the size of the asci, we see some difference. In our form, the length of -
the asci ranges from 225 to 280y, the average being about 256; while the
length given by Ellis and Everhart is 150-190. The breadth, how-

ever, is exactly the same in both cases.

Ophionectria tetraspora Miyabe et Sawada, sp. nov.
(Pl. VIL. fig. 17-22).

Sporodochia globose to obovoid, grayish white, mostly 3-6 on a scale,
0.3—0.8 mm. in diameter. Conidiophores densely packed together, monili-
form, bearing 3-5 mostly 4 conidia on the apical cell. Conidia become
free connected together by the apical cell; single conidium cylindrical slightly
tapering toward the acute or obtuse tip, subclavately cylindrical, when half
matured, hyaline, 12-20-septate, 105-190” x 7-9.5p.

Perithecia cespitose, subglobose to obovoid, darkish brown, about 0.5 -

0.6 mm. in height and 0.5 mm. in diameter. Asci fasciculate, clavate,

86 K. MIYABE AND K. SAWADA.

rounded at the tip, hyaline, 150-177» x 17-20, accompanied by many
thread-like paraphyses. Ascospores 8 in an ascus, clavate, hyaline to straw-
colored, 11-—17-septate, 50-64 x 6.5-7.5y.

Has. On Parlatoria zizyphi (Lucas) Sign. infesting Citrus nobilis
Lour.

Formosa: Tennaiho, Taihoku. (Y. Fujikuro, March 11, 1911).

Remarks. The distinguishing characteristic of the present species is
the production of four conidia on the apical cell of the conidiophore, although
there are occasionally eases with three or five. From the previous species, it
is easily distinguished also by the shape of the conidia as well as by the size
and shape of asci and ascospores, and also by the shape of perithecia.

This fungus, although not so common as Ophionectria coccicola, is still
commonly found on the sczle-insects infesting the orange-trees in Formosa,
often associated with the latter on the same leaf.

By comparing it with the other species of this genus already described,
wo have not been able to find one which corresponds exactly with our plant.
Moreover, Ophionectria coccicola has been so far the only species of the
genus known to infect the scale-insects. The other species may upon fur-

ther investigations be found to be entomophilous as in our present case.

Botanical Institute,
College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University,

Sapporo, Hokkaido.

ON FUNGI PARASITIC ON SCALE-INSECTS FOUND IN FORMOSA. 87
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ON FUNGI PARASITIC ON SCALE-INSECTS FOUND IN FORMOSA. 89

Explanation of Plates VI-VII.

Plate VI.
Aschersonia Aleyrodis. a.
1. Showing stroma with mycelial hypothallus. (3/1).
2. Cross-section of stroma. (5/1).
3. Section of stroma and pyenidium, showing sclerotioid stroma, conidiophores, stylospores
and paraphyses. (Zeiss 4 x DD).
4, Paraphyses. (Zeiss 4 x F).
5. Conidiophores. (Z.4 X* F).
6. Conidiophores. (Z. 4 * DD).
7. Stylospores. (Z. 4 x DD).

Aschersonia marginata. 8—16.

8. Stromata on Citrus twig. (3/1).

9, Stromata on the upper surface of the leaf of Psidium Guyava. (3/1).
10. Stromata on the under surfpce of the leaf of Psidiwm Guyava. (3/1).
11. Section of stroma of depressed-spherical type. (5/1).

12. Section of stroma of hemi-spherical type. (5/1).

13. Section of stroma and pycnidium, showing sclerotioid stroma, conidiophores and stylo-

spores. (Z. 4 X DD).
14. Conidiophores. (Z.4 x DD).
Stylospores. (Z.4 x F).
Aschersonia Suzubett. 16—23.
16-17. Stromata on Citrus nobilis. (3/1).
18. Stromata on Fagara nitida, (3/1).
19. Section of stromata on Citrus. (5/1).

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20. Section of stroma on Fuagara nitida. (5/1).

21. Stylospores. (Z.4 X F).

22. Section of stroma and pyenidium, showing sclerotioid stroma, conidiophores and stylo-
spores. (Z. 4 X DD).

23, Coenidiophores. (Z. 4 x DD).

Plate VII.
Sphaerostilbe coccophila. 1—5.
1. Sporodochia. (5/1).

2, Conidia on Citrus nobilis. (Zeiss 4 X DD).
3. Conidia on Malus communis. (Z. 4 xX DD).

K. MIYABE AND K. SAWADA.

Conidia on Prunus Persiea. (Z. 4 x DD).
Conidiophores. (Z. 4 x DD).
Microcera Fujikurot. 6—10.
Sporodochia. (5/1).
Sporodochia. (10/1).
Conidia. (Z.4 xX DD).
Conidiophores. (Z.4 * DD).
Mycelium composing the stroma. (Z. 4 * DD).
Ophionectria coccicola. 11—16.
Sporodochia. (5/1).
Perithecia. (5/1).
Conidia. (Z. 4 X DD).
Conidiophores and very young conidia. (Z. 4 x DD).
Ascus and paraphyses. (Z.4 x DD).
Ascospores. (Z. 4 x DD).

Ophionectria tetraspora. 17—22,
Sporodochia. (5/1).
Perithecia. (5/1).
Conidia. (Z. 4 x DD).
Ascus and paraphyses. (Z.4 x DD).
Ascus. (Z. 4 x DD).
Ascospores. (Z. 4 x DD).

_ Jour. Coll. Agric. T.I.U. Sapporo. Vol. V.

inata Ell. et Ey.

1—T. Aschersonia Aleyroides Webber. 8—15.

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