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of several structural peculiarities, chief of whichis the extraordin. 
ary sexual disparity in the length of the rostrum, this part being 
two. and one half times longer than the entire body in some females, 
but scarcely as long as the head and jprothorax in males. From 50 
Encephalartos seeds more than 900 specimens of Antliarhinus were ob- 
tained, mostly A. zarjise Thunberg. A smaller species, probably A. 
signatus Gyll., was found in several seeds, one seed containing 60 
individuals. od 
A new United States record for: the moth Athyrma Ganglio Hiibner 
has recently been set up by Foster H. Benjamin as result of his iden~ 
tification of specimens collected in Royel Palm Park, Wlae? ay He 
Morton Jones. 
In a lot of mosquitoes received from G. F, Knowlton, of the 
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Logan, Utah, was a male Culex 
salinarius Cog. taken at Corinne, Utah, on March 26, 1934. ‘Two #e- 
males from the same place and of the same date and a female fron 
Logan, Utah, taken on March 24 were apparently of the same species. 
This species has heretofore been known only as far west as the Missis- 
Sippi Valley. 
In a lot of punkies received from G. F. Knowlton were some 530 
specimens of Leptoconops americanus Carter. This species was de- 
scribed from females collected by H., S. Barber and placed as a vari- 
ety of L. kerteszi Kieffer, a North African species. The discovery 
of males in this lot shows this American form to be quite distinct 
and of specific rank, This species was found to be very annoying to 
man just south of Great Salt Lake. 

F, D. DeGant, of Cleveland, Ohio; a collector of Ichneumonidae, 
Spent May 3 to 5 in the Division of Insects, working with R. A. Cush— 
man on the subfamily Cryptinae. 
Among a lot of undetermined Braconidae reared from the chestnut 
bast-miner (Ectoedemia phloeophaga Busck) by the Division of Forest 
Insects some years ago, C. F. W. Muesebeck found four specimens, in- 
cluding both sexes, of an undescribed species of the microgasterine 
genus Dirrhope Foerster. This genus has heretofore been known only 
from the unique male type of D. rufa Foerst., a European specis. 
A. S. Pearse, of Duke University, was a visitor at the Division 
of Insects on April 16. He brought with him, for study and identi- 
fication by H. E. Ewing, a large collection of insect-infesting mites. 
Professor Pearse is chairman of a committee of Section F of the Amer- 
icon Association for the Advancement of Science, which is working out 
a classification for the higher groups of the entire animal kingdon. 
H, E, Ewing has identified as Paratetryanychus citri (McGregor) 
citrus mite specimens collected on rose at Vicosa, Minas-Gerads, 
Brazil, by E. J. Hambleton. 
