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ern Sierras, shows that it varies in color from a brilliant blue 

 green through bronze green to cupreous. In the middle Sier- 

 ras and north, it is more apt to be of a bluish green and some- 

 what constant. It is generally to be found in the flowers of 

 a species of wild white buckwheat, Eriogonum. 



Chrysobothris dentipes Germ. 



This species Dr. Horn had not seen from California. It is, 

 however, very common in the northern counties of the State 

 where it may be seen about the dead trunks and larger limbs 

 of the western yellow pine, Pimts ponderosa Dougl. 



Chrysobothris silvania Fall. 



This species, first found by L. E. Ricksecker in northern 

 Sonoma County, has been since found by F. W. Nunenmacher 

 in Del Norte County, California, and by J. C. Bridwell and 

 W. J. Chamberlin on Mt. Jefferson, Oregon. 



New North American Gall Midges (Dipt.) 



By E. P. FELT, Albany, New York. 



This paper includes descriptions of recently characterized 

 forms, one of the most interesting being the Retinodiplosis rear- 

 ed from the cones of Bald Cypress. In this connection it ap- 

 pears desirable to place on record, the capture by Dr. W. L. 

 McAtee, April 12, 1914, on Plummer's Island, Maryland, of ad- 

 ditional specimens of Neocatocha niarilandica Felt, a species 

 first taken by this collector in the same locality almost exactly 

 seven years earlier. The female has been described and the 

 male is still unknown. 



Asynapta marilandica n. sp. 



The species described below runs in our key to A. cerasl 

 Felt, from which it may be easily separated by the pulvilli be- 

 ing distinctly shorter than the claws. The male was received 

 from Dr. E. W. Nelson, labeled Plummer's Island, Maryland. 

 August 17, 1912, Dr. W. L. McAtee, collector. 



$. Length 1.5 mm. Antennae longer than the body, thickly long- 

 haired, yellowish brown ; 23 segments, the fifth with a stem tlmv- 

 fonrths the length of the subcylindric basal enlargement, which latK-r 

 has a length about one-half greater than its diameter ; terminal seg- 



