266 Annals of the South African Museum. 



CHIRONOMUS (TENDIPES) CAPENSIS, n. sp. 



$ ? . Yellowish white ; antennae of male brown with the scape 

 brownish black ; antennae of the female yellowish, with joint 6 

 brownish black. Three short bands on the mesonotum and meso- 

 sternum ferruginous red, tergites 1-4 in the male brownish in the 

 anterior parts, the following portions almost entirely brownish, the 

 2nd or 3rd last joint of the tarsi infuscate ; in the female the upper 

 part of the abdomen is brownish. Antennae of male 12-jointed, the 

 last joint 3 times as thick as long, plume fulvous. Antennae of the 

 female G-jointed, 2nd narrowed in the centre, 3-5 with the neck as 

 long as the nodose part, 6 double the length of 5. Mesonotum not 

 pruinose. Foi'e metatarsus in the male longer by one-half than the 

 tibia, but not half the length of joint 2, its distal two-thirds and the 

 3 following joints with long hairs, 4 not twice as long as 5, pulvilli 

 broad; fore metatarsus in the female one-third longer than the tibia. 

 Wings hyaline, transversal black, bifurcation of the postical situate 

 under the transversal . Terminal joint of the forceps arcuate, glabrous 

 for a little less than the distal half, which is gradually thinned and 

 which bears on the median side of the apex 7 or S long seriate setae, 

 longer than the thickness of the apex, upper appendage glabrous, 

 straight, thin, almost linear, reaching to half the length of the 

 terminal joint, straight and pilose as usual. 



Length : 8 mm. Dunbrody. (Father J. O'Neil.) 



CHIRONOMUS (TENDIPKS) LAMPKOGASTKI;, n. sp. 



J 5 . Head brownish, palpi black, scape of male brownish rufous, 

 shiny, flagellum brownish and opaque, scape and 2nd joint of the 

 female yellow, 3-6 brownish black, halteres white, thorax whitish 

 and shiny, 3 rufescent shortened bands on the mesonotum, meta- 

 notum and mesosternum dark brown, legs yellowish, anterior tarsus 

 (except the basal half of the metatarsus), the basal 3rd and the 

 apex of the anterior tibia, and the 2 ultimate joints of the 4 hind 

 tarsi brownish black ; abdomen shiny, that of the male light yellow 

 with brownish black transverse bands occupying half or two-thirds 

 of the tergites, the centre of these bands is a little prolonged back- 

 wards, nearly the w r hole of the tergites 6-8 and also the forceps 

 brown ; abdomen brown in the female with the hind border of the 

 tergites yellowish. No frontal lobes. Palpi long. Antennae 14- 

 jointed in the male, the last one twice as long as the 12 preceding 

 ones united, joints 3-12 a little transverse, plume'brown. Antennae 

 of the female 6-jointed, the 2nd joint narrowed in the centre, its 

 neck not longer than broad, 3-5 subfusiform, the neck a little longer 



