l82 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'll 



A NEW WORK ON GALLS. The E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuch- 

 handlung (Nagele & Dr. Sproesser), of Stuttgart, announce the un- 

 dertaking of a pretentious work on galls : Die Zoocecidien, durch 

 Tiere erzeugte Pflanzengallen Deutschlands und ihre Bewohner, by 

 Ew. H. Riibsaamen, with the collaboration of Messrs. Thomas, Nalepa, 

 Kiister, von Schlechtendal, Dittrich, Borner, Griinberg, Mees, Schmiede- 

 knecht, Kolbe, Ritzema-Bos and others. The chief value of the work- 

 is to lie in 150 plates of large quarto size, for the most part in 13-15 

 colors, by Werner & Winter, of Frankfurt-on-the-Main, from 

 Riibsaamen's drawings. The text will amount to about 150 sheets 

 (Bogen), and will include text-figures. The undertaking has the 

 financial support of the German Imperial Ministry of the Interior. 

 The first part is announced and the whole is to be finished in 1917. 



CORRECTIONS IN DIPTERA of the New Jersey List of Insects, 1909. 

 I have noted the following minor corrections in the list of the order 

 Diptera contained in Report on the Insects of New Jersey, 1909, by 

 Dr. Jno. B. Smith. 



Page 740, third line from bottom of page, read Therioplectes for 

 "Therioplectus." 



Page 745, genus Spogostylum, fourth species, read limatnlus for 

 "limatula." 



Page 752, genus Laphria, third species, read aeatus for "areatus." 

 Page 753, figure 312, "Asilns missouriensis." This name is a synonym 

 of Proctacanthus milberti and the figure, which is an old one, does not 

 delineate either the habitus or generic characters of the genus Asilus 

 as at present defined. Dr. Smith expresses the wish that the illustra- 

 tion may be eliminated from the literature, to which we say, Amen ! 

 Page 755, third genus read Campsicnemus for "Campicnemus." 

 Page 755, seventh genus, read Nematoproctus for "Nematoprotus." 

 Page 812, genus Agromyza, sixth species, "dimidiatus" Walk. I can 

 find no record of any such American species of either Agromyza or 

 the old genus Phytonomus in Walker's lists or any of the other dip- 

 terological catalogs of more recent date. This species is evidently 

 diminuta Walker which is known to mine the leaves of cabbage. 



In Bulletin No. 10, new series, Division of Entomology, U. S. Dept. 

 of Agriculture, Mr. D. W. Coquillett records the larvae of this species 

 mining the leaves of potato in Missouri, leaves of white clover in 

 Washington, D. C., and leaves of cabbage in California. It was also 

 bred from a stem of cabbage at Ames, Iowa, by Mr. H. Osborn. In 

 Aldrichs' "List of Diptera" Agromyza diininuta is recorded as a 

 synonym of A trifolii Burgess on the authority of Mr. Coquillett 

 who now recognizes it as a valid species. W. R. WALTON, Bureau of 

 Entomology, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.* ' 



* Published by permission of the Chief of the Bureau. 



