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In the present paper, cercosporoid hyphomycetes known from New Caledonia, Vanuatu (New Hebrides), Wallis and Futuna, and French Polynesia are summarised and discussed, along with a few collections from Fiji and Samoa. New species Cercospora phaseolicola, Cladosporium nigrel‐loides, Phaeoramularia malpighiae, Pseudo‐cercospora alocasiae, P. aracearum, P. artocarpicola, P. barringtoniicola, P. brassicae, P. dioscoreae, P. musicola, P. pipturicola, P. polysciatispinnatae, P. scaevolae, and P. vanuatuensis, the new variety Passalora mucunae var. denticulata, and the new genus Scolecostigmina are described. The new combinations Mycovellosiella gliricidiae, M. nervisequens, Passalora arachidicola, P. colocasiae, P. mucunae, Pseudocercospora alphitoniae, P. morindicola, P. musae‐sapienti, P. pterocarpicola var. guzmanii, P. vignicola, P. vexillatae, Scolecostigmina confluens, S. mangiferae, and S. tirumalensis are made. The genus Oreophylla is reduced to synonymy with Passalora.

Two new fungi, Annellosympodia orbiculata and Scolecostigmina flagellariae, on Acacia ligulata and Flagellaria indica, respectively, from Australia are described and illustrated. The former species is placed in the new genus Annellosympodia, which is characterised by an unusual combination of features, viz. fasciculate conidiogenous cells (conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells), holoblastic conidiogenesis with sympodial, but rectilinear proliferation leaving annular structures and lateral conspicuous conidiogenous loci, and rhexolytic conidial secession. The generic placement of these two fungi is discussed.