Cercosporoid hyphomycetes from New Caledonia and some other South Pacific islands

In the present paper, cercosporoid hyphomycetes known from New Caledonia, V anuatu (New Hebrides), Wallis and Futuna, and French Polynesia are summaris ed and discussed, along with a few collections from Fiji and Samoa. New spe cies Cercospora phaseolicola, Cladosporium nigrelloides, Phaeoramularia mal pighiae, Pseudocercospora alocasiae, P. aracearum, P. artocarpicola, P. bar ringtoniicola, P. brassicae, P. dioscoreae, P. musicola, P. pipturicola, P. polysciatis-pinnatae, P. scaevolae, and P. vanuatuensis, the new variety P assalora mucunae var. denticulata, and the new genus Scolecostigmina are de scribed. The new combinations Mycovellosiella gliricidiae, M. nervisequens, Passalor a arachidicola, P. colocasiae, P. mucunae, Pseudocercospora alphitoniae, P. morindicola, P. musae-sapienti, P. pterocarpicola var. guzmanii, P. vignic ola, P. vexillatae, Scolecostigmina confluens, S. mangiferae, and S. tiruma lensis are made. The genus Oreophylla is reduced to synonymy with Passalora .