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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. Card. 

 Ann. 1:380, 1914) by Berkley & Ciu*tis (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. Bui. 200, p. 157 



This yellowish brown West Indian species, only about i 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, 19 15 from Prof. F. 

 W. Urich, Trinidad, B. W. I. The male is most easily recognized 

 by the long, deeply and roimdly 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 Piano, Texas, dtu^ing 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- 



