400 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., '07 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



Entomologist Appointed for Agricultural College Experi- 

 ment Station.— A New Department for the Study of Injurious Insects. 

 — Farmers, fruit growers, truck gardeners, and in fact all who are inter- 

 ested in agriculture in North Carolina should be interested to learn that 

 the A. & M. College and Experiment Station has established a new de- 

 partment for the teaching and study of insects. This is not a new line of 

 work for the State, as the State Entomologist of the Department of 

 Agriculture at Raleigh has, for a number of years, conducted the work 

 of the inspection of orchards and nurseries, and undertaken investiga- 

 tion and control of certain injurious insect pests. There must be, how- 

 ever, many problems that the State Entomologist has not, and may not, 

 be able to undertake. 



The new entomologist, R. I. Smith, at the A. & M. College and Exper- 

 iment Station at West Raleigh comes from Georgia, where he held the 

 position of State Entomologist for a number of years. 



Notes on the Chironomidae. — In Bulletin 86 of the New York State 

 Museum, p. 125 (1905), I proposed the name Ablabesmyia for those spe- 

 cies of the genus Tanypus Meigen, which have hairy wings and a sessile 

 cubitus (Comstock) as in monitis, and retained the name Tanypus for 

 those species having hairy wings and a petiolate cubitus, as in punctipen- 

 nis. But since Skuse, in 1889, subdivided Meigen's genus and restricted 

 the name Tanypus to the first group, and furthermore as Fries (1823), 

 Curtis, and others had already given monitis as the type of Tanypus, I 

 now consider that I was in error and therefore propose the following : 



(a.) Protenthes, new name, type punctipennis, with Tanypus as defined 

 by me ('05) und restricted by Kieffer ('06) as a synonym. 



(b.) Tanypus Meigen (part), type monitis, with Ablabesmyia Johann- 

 sen, and Isoplastus Skuse, as synonyms. 



I put Isoplastus Skuse as a synonym, because the characters given by 

 its author in defining it are somewhat variable. The name moreover is 

 preoccupied for Coleoptera. 



Trichotanypus Kieffer, is a well-marked genus. The retracted posi- 

 tion of the M-Cu cross vein, as well as other characters, will at once dis- 

 tinguish it from all other Tanypinae. T. posticalis Lundbeck, from 

 Greenland, is the type. I have a specimen taken at Ithaca, N. Y. 



Prodiamesa, probably P. notala Staeger, was sent to me from Colorado 

 by Professor Cockerell. This is the first record of the occurrence of the 

 genus in North America. 



I have taken both male and female specimens of Corynotieura atra 

 Winnertz (=C celeripes) during the summer at Ithaca, N. Y. The 

 males were seen in great swarms hovering among the shrubbery over- 

 hanging a little creek. The statements made by Kieffer (Genera Insec- 



