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name was preoccupied. The type locality is the District of Columbia. 

 It has also been recorded from Massachusetts, Oregon, California 

 and Alaska. The species is probably closely related to P h y t o- 

 m y z a i 1 i c i s Kalt., a European species recorded as very 

 abundant in certain English localities by Collinge and Gillanders, 

 the latter illustrating the work and giving an outline of the life 

 history after Collinge 1 (see pages 359-60 of his "Forest 

 Entomology "). 



Since holly leaves remain upon the trees for 2 years or more, 

 the destruction of fallen leaves would have no effect upon the 

 miner, because by the time they dropped most of the insects would 

 have deserted the leaves. The most promising method of control- 

 ling this miner would be to spray with a tobacco soap solution, such 

 as three-fourths of a pint of black leaf 40 to 100 gallons of water 

 to which should be added 6 to 8 pounds of any cheap soap to serve 

 as a spreader. Make the first application the last of May or very 

 early in June and then watch the trees ; if there are signs of small 

 mines in the new foliage in late June or July repeat the spraying. 

 This latter treatment will presumably be more effective if given 

 after the insects have commenced their mining operations and the 

 injury is therefore relatively inconspicuous. 



Leucopomyia pulvinariae Mall. A considerable series of these 

 little flies kindly identified by the describer were reared from the 

 cottony maple scale, Pulvinaria vitis Linn, on Crataegus 

 collected July 6, 191 6 at Shushan, by Frank Dobbin. The fly larvae 

 evidently prey upon this scale insect. The fly itself is only about 

 three-sixteenths of an inch long, mostly a light bluish gray and with 

 red eyes. This is the only occasion the species has been brought 

 to our notice, though there is a possibility that it is a more efficient 

 enemy than available data would seem to indicate. Mr Malloch 

 states that he has had one specimen for a long time, presumably 

 from Illinois. 



Asteia beata Aldr. A specimen of this drosophilid was taken 

 at Wells, N. Y., July 14, 1921, by D. B. Young. This is a new 

 record for the Adirondacks and apparently only the second for the 

 species, since the one female type was taken at Chester, Mass., 

 August 6, 1914 by C. W. Johnson. The Wells specimen was cap- 

 tured upon the blossoms of spreading dogbane, Apocynum 

 andromaesifolium. Nothing appears to be known con- 



1 Third Report on the Injurious Insects and Other Animals observed in the 

 Midland Counties during 1905, p. 41-42, 1906. 



