178 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, '16 



Notes and. News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



New Muscoid Genera (Dip.). 



The characters" of the following new genera are given in a paper 



which has been submitted for publication, but which will be consider- 

 ably delayed : 



Myocerops gen. nov. — Genotype, jMusca carinifrons Fall. — Europe. 



Sumichrastia gen, nov. — Genotype, Hysirichodcxia aiirca Gig.-Tos — 

 Mexico. 



Pilatea gen. nov. — Genotype, Masicera celer Coq. — Louisiana. 



Masiceropsis gen. nov. — Genotype, Masicera pauciscta Coq. — So. Cali- 

 fornia. 



Cnephalogonia gen. nov. — Genotype, Gonia distincta H. E. Smith — 

 Connecticut. 



Dichoceropsis gen. nov. — Genotype, Dichoccra oricntalis Coq. — Mass- 

 achusetts. 



Megistogastropsis gen. nov. — Genotype, Megistoyaster wallacci BB. — 

 East Indies. 



Pseudoservillia gen nov. — Genotype, Echinomyia flavopilosa Big. — 

 Java. 



Sericotachina gen. nov. — Genotype, Paratachina vulpccula Wulp — W. 

 Java. 



Eutheropsis gen. nov. — Genotype, Euthcra viannii Mik — So. Europe. 



Gerocyptera gen. nov. — Genotype, Tr'ichoprosopa marginalis Walk. — 

 Amboyna. 



Charles H. T. Towxsexd. Washington, D. C. 



What the House Fly Did. 



Last year our class in Zoology began a campaign against the fly. 

 We started out with the idea that advertising would be our main means 

 of getting the campaign started, and we w-ere right, for very soon the 

 campaign seemed to fairly take care of itself. Students from the class 

 made speeches before all the Patrons' Clubs in the city during the 

 month of February. One of our prominent daily papers promised to 

 print everything we handed in on the subject. The class working to- 

 gether wrote weekly articles that were spicy and interesting. These 

 attracted such attention that other papers demanded articles on the 

 house fly. An insurance company requested that they be allowed to 

 print pictorial posters on the subject, and that these be distributed 

 about the city. The Electric Company asked to be allowed to give 

 away fly swatters. One of the local theatres presented moving pic- 

 tures of the fly, especially for the school children. Later the various 

 clubs of the city asked to be represented in the movement. Finally a 

 federation of clubs was formed to make this campaign an annual event. 

 But right here is where disaster came to the enterprise, for the work 

 of last year at least. Two factions arose, each demanding that certain 

 officers be elected and certain policies be carried out. The feeling wax- 

 ed so strong that when officers were finally elected, and policies were 

 finally presented, everyone was far too angry to carry out anything. 

 This smacks somewhat of other campaigns in our national affairs where 

 very little is accomplished for the general good. This all goes to show 

 that even though the teacher interests the parents most keenly, the 

 parents are harder to work with than the children. — Nettie Cook in 

 School Science and Mathematics, xv, 146. February, 1915. 



