INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 85 



Dioryctria muellerana, new species. 



Fore wing dark gray, a little shaded with reddish in lower 

 part of median space and subterminally ; a slight black mark 

 near base, then a subbasal black band, distinct centrally ; inner 

 line narrow, indented on median and vein 1 ; discal mark pale, 

 with a little blackish outwardly ; outer line rather broad and 

 streaked on the veins, indented opposite cell and a little in- 

 curved below, followed very faintly by whitish ; veins in ter- 

 minal area blackish lined ; a terminal black line. Hind wing 

 grayish translucent, darker on costa and termen. Expanse, 

 30 mm. 



Type, male, No. 22026, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Zacualpan, Mexico, 

 May, 1918 (R. Miiller). 



This may prove to be the male of D. majorella Dyar, 



CRAMBIN^ 



Thaumatopsis idion, new species. 



Fore wing brownish gray, a broad white streak through 

 lower part of cell running out nearly to termen ; a blackish 

 shade above this in upper part of cell ; narrow black lines out- 

 wardly in the interspaces ; an ochraceous shading along sub- 

 median fold. Hind wing gray. Expanse, 30 mm. 



Type, male. No. 22129, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Mexico City, 

 Mexico, July, 1918 (R. Miiller). 



A NOTE ON ARGENTINE MOSQUITOES 



(Diptera, Culicidce) 



By HARRISON G. DYAR 



According to recent publications, the following mosquitoes 

 are known to occur in the Argentine Republic : 



?Sabethes cyaneus Fabricins. 

 Limatus leontiniae Brethes. 

 Lcsticocampa paranensis Brethes. 

 *Culex (Culex) pipiens Linn, (flavipes Macquart). 

 ICulex {Culex) quinqucfasciatus Say {dolosa of authors, not of 

 Lynch). 



