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dcscrta Grinnell. 1912, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. Sci. xi, 79. Autographa. 



arrosta Dyar. 1921, Ins. Ins. Menst. ix, 63. Cerapoda. 



2. STRIGATA Smith. 1891, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xviii, 107. Calo- 

 pliasia. 



1906, Hampson, Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vi, 125. JCalufhasia. 



1917, Barnes & McDunnough, Check List No. 2012, p. 56. Calophasia. 



^oblita Dyar (not Grote). 1921, Ins. Ins. Menst. ix, 63. Ccrapoda. 



Another synonym appears in Dr. Dyar's Schinia mclliftua, 

 This name applies to Schinia nivcicosta Smith. Niveicosta was 

 described from a single female, rather duller than most exam- 

 ples, which is in our possession. We have also a small series 

 from Palm Springs, California, the type locality of melliftua. 

 The species is very variable, but is unlike any other known to 

 us and is very well characterized by Dyar's description of 

 mellifiua. 



An Undescribed Species of Net-winged Midge from 

 Argentina (Blepharoceridae, Diptera.) 



By CHARLES P. ALEXANDER, Urbana, Illinois. 

 In 1920 (Arkiv for Zoologi, Band 13, No. 7, pp. 1-4), the 

 writer described a new genus and species of net- winged midge, 

 Edwardsina chilcnsis, from southern Chile. As indicated in 

 the original description, the fly exhibits some very unusual 

 venational features. The discovery of a second species of this 

 primitive genus of Blepharoceridae is of more than visual inter- 

 est. The two specimens upon which the following description 

 is based were collected by Dr. Carette along the Rio Diamante 

 in southern Mendoza, Argentina, and kindly sent to me for 

 determination by my friend, Dr. Charles Bruch, to whom 1 

 am indebted for many kind favors. The type is in the Museum 

 of La Plata, the allotype in the writer's collection. Both of 

 these types appear somewhat teneral and the wings are badly 

 folded. 



Edwardsina argentinensis, new species. 



$. Length about 8 mm.; wing 11 mm. $ . Length about 8.5 mm.; 

 wing 14 mm. The bodies of both specimens are rather shrunken, so a 

 better idea of the size is conveyed by the wing measurements. 



Mouth parts and palpi light yellowish brown. Antennae with the 

 scapal segments and the base of the first flagellar segment obscure 

 brownish orange ; remainder of the flagellum dark brown ; flagellar 

 segments nearly globular. Front cream-colored ; vertex dark brown. 



