56 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENvSTRUUS 



Aedes balteatiis Theobald, Mon. Culic, v, 485, 1910. 



Aedes balteatus Howard, Dyar & Knab, Mosq. No. & Cent. Am. 



& W. I., iv, 809, 1917. 

 Aedes (Ochlerotatiis) balteatus Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., vi, 77, 1918. 

 Aedes (Heteronycha) balteatus Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., viii, 105, 



1920. 



This is the form inhabiting Santo Domingo. 



Aedes tortilis virginensis, new subsepecies. 



Aedes sp., Howard, Dyar & Knab, Mosq. No. & Cent. Am. & W. 

 I., iv, 804, 1917. 



The above name may be applied to the single specimen from 

 St. Thomas mentioned in the monograph. The mesonotum is 

 broadly golden in the middle, widening sharply centrally, then 

 roundedly retreating, the golden not reaching antescutellar 

 space except narrowly in the center. 



Type, female, No. 34898, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; St. Thomas, 

 Virgin Islands, August, 1905 (A. Busck). 



Species 4 



Aedes (Ochlerotatus) lynchii Brethes. 



Heteronycha dolosa Lynch Arribalzaga (in part, ?), Rev. Mus. 



de la Plata, ii, 156, 1891. 

 Culex lynchii Brethes, Ann. Mus. Nac. Hist. B. A., xxviii, 212, 



1916. 

 Heteronycha dolosa Howard, Dyar & Knab (in part, 9), Mosq. 



No. & Cent. Am. & W. I., iv, 613, 1917. 

 Culex' tapinops Brethes, Physis, iii, 227, 1917. 

 Aedes lynchii Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., vii, 87, 1919. 

 A(:des (Heteronycha) dolosa Dyar (in part), Ins. Ins. Mens., vii, 



88, 1919. 

 Aedes (Heteronycha) dolosa Dyar (in part), Ins. Ins. Mens., viii, 



105, 1920. 

 Aedes (Ochlerotatus) lynchii Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., ix, 149, 1921. 



Much difficulty has arisen from Lynch's confused and er- 

 roneous account of his Heteronycha dolosa. It appears prob- 

 able that he described from a male Culex and a female Aedes. 

 Both of these were later redescribed by Brethes, the Cule.v as 

 Culex bonariensis. the Aedes as Culex lynchii. Theobald (]\Ton. 

 Culic, ii, 151, 1901) placed Heteronycha dolosa as a synonym 



