BY FREDERICK A. A. SKUSE. 233 



diamond-shaped, densely clothed with rather long pale yellow 

 hairs ; anal joint and forceps dark brown, more or less tinged with 

 ochreous. Legs very pale ochreous-yellow, last two tarsal joints 

 and extreme tips of preceding ones more or less dusky, densely 

 clothed with pale yellow hairs ; tibial spurs deep brown. In fore- 

 legs metatarsus nearly twice the length of tibiae. Wings shorter 

 than abdomen, hyaline, iridescent, costal, first and third longitu- 

 dinal veins and basal portion of fourth longitudinal vein ochre- 

 yellow, distinct. Costal and third longitudinal veins meeting a 

 little before the apex of the wing; auxiliary vein indistinct, 

 scarcely reaching costa, its tip about opposite that of posterior 

 branch of fifth longitudinal fork ; second longitudinal indistinct 

 towards its tip, scarcely reaching costa, teroiinating a short 

 distance beyond tip of first longitudinal vein ; fourth longitudinal 

 vein pale beyond middle cross- vein, not quite reaching wing-margin, 

 its tip situated about J the distance from tip of costa to that of 

 anterior branch of fifth longitudinal fork ; base of latter lying 

 opposite base of middle cross-vein, its posterior branch rather more 

 than half the length of anterior. 



Hab. — Sydney (Masters and Skuse) ; Hexham near ISTewcastle, 

 N.S.W. (Skuse) ; Victoria Park, Brisbane, in November (Mr. H. 

 Try on). April. 



222. Chironomus pervagatus, sp.n. 



9. — Length of antennae 0-037 inch ... 0*92 millimetre. 



Expanse of wings 0-185 x 0-057 ... 4-68x1-44 



Size of body 0-250x0-040 ... 6-34x1-01 



Aiitennse brown, dusky towards the extremity, the basal joint 

 and first two flagellar joints sometimes ochreous-yellow. Head 

 ochre-yellow or brownish-yellow. Face, clypeus, and palpi brown 

 or yellowish-brown. Thorax ochre-yellow, pale yellowish- 

 brown, with thvee brown stripes, the anterior one with a lighter 

 (sometimes darker) median line which continues to the scutellum; 

 three longitudinal rows of pale yellow hairs ; pleurae ochreous, 



