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13. South African Chironomidae (l)iptcra}. By ABBE J. .1. 



KlEFFER, Ph.D. 



No representative of the Family ('///'/ i>ii<>nii<l<t< > was hitherto known 

 from South Africa. This paper is therefore the first contribution to 

 the knowledge of the Chironomid flies of this region. Owing to the 

 interest displayed hy the Director of the Cape Town Museum, 

 Dr. L. Peringuey, in obtaining the species here described, one has a 

 right to expect that other contributions will follow. 



1. SUB-FAMILY CLUNIONINAE, Kieff. 



GEN. PARACLUNIO, Kieff. 



This genus included one species only, viz., P. trilobatus, Kieff., 

 whose larva lives amid the rocks on the shore of California. The 

 two Cape species differ from the Californian by having the femora 

 and tibiae free from scales, by the absence of fasciculate hairs on 

 the tarsi, by the sublinear femora, and lastly by the shape of the 

 anal segment. 



PAKACLUNIO FUSCIPENNIS, n. sp. 



$ $ . Black, opaque and glabrous. Halteres yellowish white, 

 antennae brownish, apices whitish, legs whitish, under side of 

 abdomen yellowish, forceps and oviduct brownish yellow. Eyes 

 glabrous, subcircular, large, distant, the distance almost equal to 

 their diameter, the median border with a longitudinal raised line. 

 Palpi very short, consisting of 2 moderately large joints not quite as 

 long as thick. Antennae similar in both sexes, 7-jointed, 1st joint 

 elongated, longer by one-half than broad, and much thicker than the 

 others following ; the 2nd elongated, twice as long as broad, slightly 

 narrowed towards the middle, subcylindrical, the 4 joints following 

 slightly transverse, the apex strongly transverse, 7th larger than the 

 5 preceding it, but less thick than the scape, and 3 times as long as 

 the 6th, ovoid except that the distal 3rd part is suddenly narrowed 

 in the shape of a black, obtuse, subcylindrical style. All the joints 



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