3 NEW CONIDIAL FUNGI (HYPHOMYCETES) FROM CUBA

Three new hyphomycetes, Scalecobasidium excentricum, Soloacrospora mic roverrucosa, and Arachnophora uberisporoides, found on leaf litter in Cuba, are described and illustrated. The first species is characterize d by cylindrical to worm-like, 3-5-septate, pale brown, eccentrically inflated conidia; the second species has fusiform, 0-1-septate, minute ly verrucose conidia and lacks sterile setae. A. uberisporoides has co nidia with two dark brown, globose central cells, from which several h emispherical, obtuse, subhyaline, unbranched, one-celled arms arise. A new combination, Arachnophora polyradiata, is proposed for Cacahualia polyradiata Mercado & Castaneda and the six species recognized in Ara chnophora are keyed out.