224 CHIRONOMID/E. 



ninth to the thirteenth elongated-elliptical. Thorax with a few black 

 bristles. TFmgs liyaline^ whitish when seen on a dark surface, with 

 hoary hairs ; veins pale ; costal veins with brownish tips. Halteres 

 white. Abdomen broton, pale beneath, Jlesh-coloiir in the livhig insect, 

 thickly covered with short whitish hairs. Legs pale ; knees blackish. 

 Not common. (E.) 



44. neglectus, Winn.! Linn. Ent. vi. 46. 44. pi. 6. f. 44. (1852). 

 Mas, obscure fuscus, palpis antennisq^ie nigris, harum plumis nigris apice 

 albidis, thorace nigro-hirto, alls hyallnis nigro -pilosis, venis pallidis 

 apud costam nigris, halteribus nigro-fuscis, abdomine nigro-fusco, pedlbus 

 palUde piceis, tarsis albidis articiilis apice fuscis. Long. -|; alar. \\ lin. 



Male. Palpi black ; first joint long ; second short, almost cylindrical. 

 Antennce black, with black plumes, whose tips are glistening -white. 

 Thorax dark broken, dull, with a whitish glistening in some aspects, 

 clothed with black hairs. Wings hyaline, whitish when seen on a dark 

 surface, with black hairs ; veins pale, black towards the costa. llul- 

 teres blackish-brown ; their knobs wUh almost grey tips. Abdomen black- 

 ish-brown, with black, hoary-giistening hairs. Legs pale piceous ; tarsi 

 whitish, their joints with dark tips. 



Not common. (E.) 



45. splendidus, Winn.! Linn. Ent. vi. 47. 45. pi. 6. f. 45 (1852). 

 Mas, albo-flavus, antennis auratis, pectore et scutello albis, alis pallide 

 fusco -Jlavis guttis duabus anticis et sex posterioribus nigris marginibiis 

 apices versus pilosis, halteribus albis, abdomine atro segmentorum margini- 

 bns niveis, pedibus albidis cingulis nigris. Long. -I ; alar. 1 lin. 



Male. Proboscis and palpi yellowish-white. Antennce and their plumes 

 gilded-yellow ; tips of the latter tinged with brown ; hind head hoary ; 

 vertex silvery -white. Thorax lohitish-yellow, inclining to brown, finely 

 punctured with brown. Pectus, scutellmn and metathorax white. Wings 

 pale brownish-yellow, appearing white on a dark surface, pubescent along 

 the apical half of the border, tcith eight black dots, — two on the veins by 

 the costa, two in the disc, and four in a row hindward from half the 

 length of the border to the tips of the wing. Halteres ichite. yLbdomen 

 deep black, with slight snow-7chite bands on the hind borders of the seg- 

 ments ; the four last segments appearing wholly white in some aspects. 

 Legs whitish ; tips of the femora, of the tibire, and of the joints of the 

 tarsi with black bands ; hind tarsi xoholly black ; fore tibice with a broton 

 subapical band ; hind tihice with tioo brown bands. 



(E.?) 



46. ochraceus, Winn. ! Linn. Ent. vi. 48. 46. pi. 6. f. 46 (1852). 

 Mas, ochraceo-flavus, palpis apice fuscescentibus, antennis fuscis, alis 

 limpidis nudis apices versus pubescentibus, venis distinctis plus minusve 

 fuscescentibus apud costam apice incrassatis, pedibus pallidioribus. 

 Long, f ; alar. 1| lin. 



Male. Ochraceous-yellow. Palpi with brownisli tips. Antenn;c 

 brown; joints elliptical ; ninth and the four following much elongated. 



