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W. L. McAtee of the bureau of biological survey, Washington, and 
is apparently common and widely distributed, since we have records 
of its occurring in Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. The gall is 
probably a greatly hypertrophid leaflet. 
Dr E. A. Burt of the Missouri Botanical Garden has recently 
called our attention to the fact that this gall was originally supposed 
to have been produced by a fungus, first designated as Merulius 
cupressi Schw. (Schrift d. Naturforsch. Gesell. Leipzig, 1:92, 1822) 
and subsequently referred to the genus Cyphella (Fries, Epicr. 567, 
1836-1838). He states that it has been distributed in collections of 
fungi under one or the other of the above-mentioned botanical names. 
The above is paralleled by the earlier reference of the peculiar blister 
leaf galls produced by the genus Asteromyia to fungi belonging to 
the genus Rhytisma. The true nature of this cypress gall seems to 
have first been pointed out, according to Dr Burt (Mo. Bot. Gard. 
Ann. 1:380, 1914) by Berkley & Curtis (Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila: Jour. 
3:207, 1856). See also Saccardo, Sylloge Fungorum 6:674, 1888. 
Itonida manihot Felt 
1910 Felt, E. P. Ent. News, 21:268-69 (Cecidomyia) 
1918 ———— N.Y. State Mus. Bul. 200, p. 157 
This yellowish brown West Indian species, only about 1 mm long, 
was reared from leaf galls on Cassava, Manihot utilissima, 
by William H. Patterson, of the agricultural school, St Vincent, W. I. 
It was also received under date of March 16, 1915 from Prof. F. 
W. Urich, Trinidad, B. W. I. The male is most easily recognized 
by the long, deeply and roundly emarginate ventral plate and the 
short stems separating the antennal enlargements. 
Itonida texana n. sp. ' 
The reddish male described below was taken by E. S. Tucker 
in a trap lantern at Plano, Texas, during July. It is doubtfully 
referred to this genus and is remarkable because of the greatly 
swollen basal clasp segment. 
Male. Length 1.25 mm. Antennae a little longer than the body, 
thickly haired, dark brown; fourteen segments, the fifth with stems 
one and three-fourths and one and one-fourth times their diameters, 
respectively; terminal segment produced, the distal enlargement 
subcylindric, with a length three times its diameter, and apically 
with a slender, fingerlike process. Palpi; first segment with a length 
over twice its diameter, the second a little longer, stouter, the third 
a little longer and more slender than the second, and the fourth a 
little longer than the third. Mesonotum reddish brown, the sub- 
