ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA., MAY, IQIQ. 



Entomologia Resurgens Belgica. 



The American Entomological Society has lately received in 

 exchange Number i of the Nineteenth Year of the Revue Men- 

 siicllc de la Societc Entomologiquc Namnroise, dated Namur 

 (Belgium), Jan. 25, 1919. The opening paragraphs are as 

 follows (translated) : 



After 53 months of silence, our review reappears ; at first under a 

 modest aspect that we will seek to improve in order to give it as 

 rapidly as possible all its old vitality. We appeal for the aid of all 

 our friends; during the long months of desolation, entomology has 

 been a consolation and we count on an ample harvest of notes and 

 interesting observations, continuing to give to our review that personal 

 character which has made it so valuable. It does not enter into our 

 plan to speak of the war ; our beautiful patriotic song, "To The Fu- 

 ture," ought to be our guide; it will inspire us and will show us our 

 path; with the help of God we do not doubt of success. Our Society 

 has decided to break off all relations with the German countries and 

 their allies. The barbarism, of which we have been the victims, ap- 

 proved by their savants (?), has made this purification necessary. 

 Andenne, Dinant, Tamines, Lou vain, Rheims and how many other 

 cities and villages are not scraps of paper which a Chancellor can 

 ever make disappear. 



Let us by a League of Nations, or by any other means, and 

 by all means prevent a repetition of the horrors which have 

 compelled our Belgian confreres to write these words. 



An Itonid Feeding on Rust Spores (Itonididae, Diptera). 



During the summer of 1918 some interesting itonid larvae were 

 found living in hypertrophied fruits of Cratacgus at Ithaca, New York. 

 The adults, when bred from the fruit, were sent to Dr. Felt for identi- 

 fication. He found them to be Mycodiplosis ccrasifolia Felt. This 

 species was first reared September 4, 1907, from irregularly thickened 

 folded choke cherry leaves taken at Newfoundland, New Jersey, and 

 described by Dr. Felt in "New Species of Cecidomyiidae II," p. 21, 

 1907. A figure of the gall produced on choke cherry leaves is given 

 in Thompson's Illustrated Catalog of American Insect Galls (plate 8, 

 figure 327) and this is reproduced in New York State Museum Bulletin 

 200 (plate 11, figure 4) by Dr. Felt. 



The infested fruits of Cratacgus on examination were found to have 

 a fungous disease called Crataegus rust or quince rust, Gymnosporan- 

 yhim clarifies C. and P. According to Weimer (Cornell University 

 Bull. 390) this disease is widely distributed in the eastern and central 



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