1920.] E. Brunetti : Oriental 'fc S. Asiatic Nemocera. 43 



viii-07 (including ty[)c 9); Kurseong. 6-ix-09 ; Gunung Gedeh, 

 Java, iii [J acobson']. Types in Pusa collection. 



senile Brun., Rec. Ind. Mus. IV, 288, <r {senilis) (1911). 



Id., Fauna Brit. Ind., 191, d*. 



Phagu, 8-V-07 [Annandale'\. Type, a unique o" , in Indian 

 Museum. 

 striatum Brun., vSpol. Zeyl. VIII, 90, o" , pi., var. chars. (1912). 



/(/., Fauna Brit. Ind., App. 561, & : Palton and Cragg, Text 

 Bk. Med. Ent. 172, pi. xxxii, 1-4, var. chars. 



Peradcniya, vii-1911 {type), xiii-io, 2-vi-i9 [Green and Gravely]. 



Kodaikanal, S. India, 6000 ft., very common, breeding in hill 

 streams. 



eximium de Meij., Tijd. v. Ent. LVI, 330, d" 2 (1913). 



Nongkodjadjar, Java, i \ J acobson]. Types in Amsterdam 



Museum. 



atratum, id., loc. cit., 331, d" 2 (1913). 



Gunung Gedeh, Java, iii [Jacobson]. Types in Amster- 

 dam Museum. 

 argyrocinctum, id., loc. cit., 332, d" 9 (T913). 



Gunung Gedeh, Java, iii [J acobson]. Types in Amsterdam 

 Museum, 

 iridescens, jrf., /oc. ct7., 333, & 9 (1913). 



Nongkodjadjar, Java, i [] acobson]. Types in Amsterdam 

 Museum. 



Family CHIRONOMIDAE.' 



In the Chironomidac, a family with which I am but poorly 

 acquainted, it has Ijeen my endeavour to steer an intermediate 

 course between the broader view as instanced by Dr. Kertesz (Cata- 

 logue, 1902), and the narrower one followed by Dr. Kieffer. The 

 former sinks in Ceralopo^on many groujis {Culicoides, Palponiyia, 

 Spiiaeromvias, etc.), that are regarded by the latter as generic, some 

 of which have yet again been subdivided into further genera. The 

 exact amount of pubescence on the wing, the degree of incrassation 

 of the femora, also the presence thereon or absence of small spines 

 or s])inules, are all characters liable to vary much in degree, so that 

 drawing a hard and fast generic lino between the groujis becomes 

 increasingly dilVicult as a greater number of species are discovered. 



In admitting Spltaeromyias, Serromyia, Helerotnyia and Bezzia 

 to generic rank I follow Cofpiillett (1910), but though that author 

 admits Culicoides as generically distinct from ('cratopogon, I have 

 been unable to sufficiently differentiate them to do more than list 

 the species of the different groups herein regarded as subgeneric, 

 according to the views of their authors. 



Professor Kieffer, in describing many of his new species, has 



' .\ number of Indian Museum tvpes in this family arc still with Prof. Kieffer. 

 but communication with tiermanv bcinj; interrupted bv the present war, these 

 types are entered in this laialofjuc as " belimging to the fndian Museum.'' 



