Ichthyofauna of Sagami Bay has been researched, and 553 species has been recorded since 1986. In the present paper, five species are additionally recorded. Pempheris nyctereutes (Pempheridae)is of rare occurrence in the Bay.

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Fifty species of oribatid mites were collected from the soil of a small shrine forest located in Odawara City of Central Japan. Many rare species were found among them such as Neoribates pallidus Aoki, Neoribates rimosus Suzuki, Eulohmannia ribagai Berlese, Cultrobates nipponicus Aoki, Allosuctobelba grandis (Paoli). It is also noteworthy that they contain some inhabitants of natural forests such as Cosmohermannia frondosa Aoki & Yoshida, Fissicepheus mitis Aoki, Eremaeus tenuisetiger Aoki, Galumnella nipponica Suzuki & Aoki, etc.

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We report 6 species ofpolydorid species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from the Odawa Bay, Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa Prefecture. In seagrass bed, Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802, Pseudopolydora cf. kempi, Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata (Okuda, 1937), and Pseudopolydora antennata (Claparede, 1870) occurred abundantly. In oyster beds in the Sajima port, Boccardia proboscidea Hartman 1940 and Boccardiella hamata (Webster, 1879) were found.

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Paecilomyces farinosus was isolated from a pupa of butterfly Luehdorfia japonica (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). This is the first record of the fungus from L. japonica. The isolate showed pathogenesity on pupae of a moth species Galleria melonera （Lepidoptera: Pyralididae) and produced synnemata on them.

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Occurrence of Phycomyces nitens in the field in Odawara of central Japan was recorded for the period of about 4 years, April 1999 through October 2003. In the field, Phycomyces nitens sporulated during the cool seasons from mid November to mid April, when the monthly value of the mean temperature was below the annual mean temperature (15.5℃） of Odawara. They grew on four kinds of Mammalian dung, out of which zygospore formation was observed, only once, on the surface of cat dung.

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