Feb., '06] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 69 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



In my article on " Mosquitoes in Mississippi " in the November News, 

 I inadvertently wrote niger for nigripes in reference to the fourth species 

 of Anopheles taken in the State. — Glenn W. Herrick, Agricultural 

 College, Mississippi. 



Editors of Entomological News : — Just a word to acknowledge a 

 few minutes of real enjoyment in reading the letter of Mr. Henry Clay 

 Weeks in the January News. Its very violence makes it unnecessary 

 for me to reply, but I do wish to disclaim any feeling of jealousy. So 

 far as I am aware, Mr. Weeks has never done anything that any one 

 need be jealous of. That he has done and is doing work in New Jersey 

 may be true, because even in New Jersey there are men with more money 

 than brains. As for the rest, my original letter stated facts which are 

 easy of verification. I cannot say the same for the answer. — John B. 

 Smith. 



The Larva of Apatela funeralis G. & R. — The conundrum pro- 

 pounded by Mr. R. F. Pearsall as to the identity of a certain larva found 

 by him but not bred is apparently solved by the above title. Mr. Pear- 

 sall describes (Ent. News, xvii, 22, 1906) the spathulate appendages as 

 cream color, whereas they are in reality black, an error possibly induced 

 by their very shiny character. A description of the larva, with references, 

 can be found in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxi, 103, 1898. Mr. Pearsall's ob- 

 servation of the penultimate stages resembling bird-droppings is new, 

 although the European A. alni is known to have this character, and 

 our species therefore should have it also. The observation on construc- 

 tion of cocoon is also new, Harris giving a different habit. — Harrison G. 

 Dyar. 



Pelastoneurus nigrescens Wheeler, a synonym of P. dissimilipes 

 Wheeler ; a correction. — Mr. C. W. Johnson has recently called my at- 

 tention to a singular lapsus in my paper entitled: "New species of 

 Dolichopodidse from the United States." (Proceed. Calif. Acad. Sci. 3rd 

 Ser. Zool. Vol. II, No. 1, 1899). Fig. 21, PI. 1 is described as the wing 

 of Pelastoneurus nigrescens sp. nov. 9 and Fig. 27, PI. II as the hypopy- 

 gium of the male of the same species, but no such specific name is any- 

 where mentioned in the text. On looking into the matter I find that 

 both of these figures refer to P. dissimilipes, which is fully described at 

 pp. 16, 17. P. nigrescens is merely a manuscript name for which I sub- 

 stituted dissimilipes while writing out the description. I hasten to 

 make this correction as the name nigrescens cannot fail to confuse some 

 future students of the Dolichopodidse. Fortunately it does not appear 

 in Aldrich's valuable "Catalogue of North American Diptera. " 



W. M. Wheeler. 



