SOME NEW DIJ'TERA-COQrjLLETT. GOV 



28. Thorax and scutellum black. Head and its members yellow, eyes contiguou!., 

 antenna?, last tarsal joint, winjjs, and fourth vein as in the preceding species, 

 niesonotuni highly polished, halteres and legs light yellow; length, 1.5 mnj. 



dlvcrsus, new species. 

 A female specimen, collectcMl July ;; liy Mr. ('. W. Johnson. Riverton, NuM' 

 Jersey. 



r»/pe.—Cat No. 5482, U.S.N.M. 



Thorax and scutellum green. Head, eyes, antenna^, last tarsal joint, wings, and 

 fourth vein as in the preceding species; abdomen marked with a transverse 

 pair of. elongate, velvet black spots on the third and fifth segments; halteres. 

 and legs light yellow, apices of hind femora and of their tibife black; length, 

 2 mm rlridiK, new species. 



A female s)ieciinen, collected June 10 by Mr. C. W. Johnson. Riverton, New' 

 Jersey. 



Type.—OAi. No. .5483, U.S.N.M. 



CHIRONOMUS BRACHIALIS, new species. 



^faJr. — Head black, the face brownish yellow, mouth parts brown, 

 first joint of antennae black, the others yellow, hairs of antennae pale 

 yellow changing into white at their apices; thorax and scutellum black, 

 polished; abdomen yellow, middle of dorsum of second segment, pro- 

 longed to the lateral margin at the hind end, on the front end extend- 

 ing entirely aroiind the segment, narrow bases of the three succeeding 

 .segments and whole of the following ones, including the genitalia, 

 brown; legs yellow, apex of front femora, front tibise and their tarsi 

 except basal two-thirds of first joint, knees of other legs, apices of 

 their tibiae, sutures of first three tarsal joints and whole of the two 

 following brown, front tarsi fringed with rather long hairs on outer 

 side of second and third joints; wings bare, the basal portion hyaline 

 and with yellow veins, the remainder grayish hj^aline and with })rownish 

 veins, an indistinct darker brown spot on the small crossvein; halteres 

 3^ellow. Length, 5 mm. 



Female. — As in the male except that the first antennal joint is yellow, 

 broad humeral region tinged with yellow, second and three following 

 abdominal segments largely ])rownish (front tarsi wanting), wings with 

 a broad brown crossband which in its outer portion includes the small 

 crossvein. 



Two males and one female, collected June 27 by Mr. C. W. Johnson. 



llahifnt. — Westville, New Jersey. 



T>jpe.—Q^i. No. 5484. U.S.N.M^ 



CHIRONOMUS T.(ENIAPENNIS, new species. 



Yellow, tinged in places with green, cspeciall}' on the abdomen, 

 mouth i)arts, apical half of the femora, bases of front and middle tibiae 

 and nearly the whole of the hind ones brown, metanotum marked with 

 a transverse pair of triangular brown spots; Avings whitish, the costal 

 cell from humeral crossvein to apex of auxiliary vein, a crossl)and 



