2f)2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov.,'17 



be used and the species forming the Chinese gall will become 

 Melaphis chinensis (Bell). The more important publications 

 on the species follow. Mr. S. A. Rohwer supplied me with the 

 references to Smith (1871) and Trimble (1892). 



Literature. 

 1590? Li Shih-chlx. — Pen tsao kang mu Bk 39, folio 21 r° & v° 



(Chinese). 

 1682. Cleyer, Andrew. — Specimen Medicinae Sinicae Med. Simp. (p. 



47), No 225. 

 1724. Geoffroy, M. — Observations sur les vessies qui viennent aux 



Ormes, et sur un sorte d'excroissance a peu-pres pareille 



qui nous est apportee de la Chine — Memoirs of the Royal 



Acad, of Sciences, Paris, 320. 

 1728. T'u Shu Cm Ch'exg. — (Chinese Encyclopedia.) 

 1736. Du Halde, J. B. — Description Geographique, Historique, Chro- 



nologique, Politique, et Physique de I'Empire de la Chine 



et de la Tartarie Chinoise, — The Hague. 

 1802. Ono, Ranzan. — Honzo Komoku Keimo, Vol. 35 (Japanese). 

 1817. Brande, Wm. Thos. — Observations on an Astringent Vegetable 



Substance from China. Philosophical Transactions, 39. 

 1844. GuiBOURT, M. — On the galls of Terebinthus and Pistacia. Phar- 

 maceutical Journal, 3, 377. 

 1844. Pereira, Jonathan. — Observations on the Chinese gall, called 



"Woo-pei-tsze." Pharmaceutical Journal, 3, 384. 



1848. Bell, Jacob. — The insect forming the Chinese Gall. Pharm. 



Journal, 7, 310. 



1849. Stein, Von \V. — Ueber chinesischen Gallus. Dingier, 114, 433, 



aus Poly tech. Centralblatt Liefer. 22. 



1850. Pereira, Jonathan. — The Elements of Materia Medica and 



Therapeutics. Third Edition, 2, pt. i, 1224. 



1850. ScHENK, VoN. — Nachtragliche Notiz iiber die chinesischen Gall- 



apfel. Buch. Rep. Pharm., 105, 346. 



1851. BucHNER, L. A. — Ueber den Wferth der Chinesischen Gallapfel. 



Buch. Rep. Pharm.. 107. 31.3- 



1853. Wittstein, C. C. — On the Preparation of Gallic Acid from 

 Chinese Gall-nuts. Pharm. Jour. Trans., 12, 444. 



1855. Heinecke, Von H. — Ueber Darstellung des Tannins aus chinesi- 

 schen Gallapfeln. Archiv der Pharm. (2), 83, 4. 



1855. Reeling, Von. — Aphis chinensis. Archiv der Pharm. (2), 81, 

 280. 



1865. Archer, Prof. — Notes on a new species of Gall from China 

 with references to other unusual commercial galls. Am. 

 Jour. Pharm. 27, 186. 



