New conidial fungi from Andaman Islands, India

Four new species of litter-inhabiting Hyphomycetes are described from the forests of Middle Andaman Island, India.These are: (1) Argopericonia indiraei sp.nov, characterized by catenate, globose, hyaline blastic conidia developing on flexuous conidiophores with discrete conidiogenous cells; (2) Virgatospora natarajensis sp.nov.producing fusiform, non-septate, olive green to dark brown, phialidic conidia with longitudinal surface ridges on erect synnematous conidiomata, both isolated from decaying leaves of Calamus thwaitesii; (3) Phialocephala vittalensis sp.nov.with *catenate, 1-septate, pale brown, phialidic conidia developing on apically branched conidiophores; and (4) Stratiphoromyces raghukumarensis sp.nov.producing fusiform, curved, 1-septate, phialidic conidia on percurrently regenerating conidiophores, isolated from fallen leaves of Caryota urens.