218 NEW YORK STATE MTTSEUM 



dark brown, mesonotum opaque, a broad, j^ellowish median vitta 

 on the anterior half, and a widely separated pair of gray pruinose 

 vittae on the posterior half; abdomen opaque, velvet-black, its 

 hairs yellow ; legs yellowish white, front and middle femora, 

 except their apices, also bases of hind femora brownish, middle 

 tibiae tinged with brown, front tarsi only pubescent, front tibiae 

 three fourths as long as their first tarsal joint, hind tibiae and 

 their tarsi in the male densely clothed with rather long hairs; 

 wings hyaline, slightly tinged with yellow, small crossvedn not 

 darker than the adjacent veins, third vein (Ri+j) almost straight; 

 halteres whitish ; length 2.5 to 4 mm. Washington, D. C. Coquil- 

 lett, loc. cit. 



30. Chironomus pedellus Degeer 



1776 Tipula Beg. Mem. pour serv. a I'hlst. d. Ins. 6:378, 17 



1818 Chironomus Meigen. Syst. Beschr. 1 : 28, 16 



1850 Chironomus Zett. Dipt. Scand. 9 : 3535, 57 



1864 Chironomus Schiner. Fauna Austr. 2 : 606 



1877 Chironomus V. d. Wulp. Dipt. Neerl. p.259, 19 



1794 Tipula cantans Fabr. Ent. Syst. 4 : 247, 67 



1804 Chironomus Meigen. Klass. 1 :13, 7 



1805 Chironomus Fabr. Syst. Antl. p.45, 34 



1803 Tipula littoralis Schrnk. Fauna Boica. 3:74,2325 

 1880 Chironomus var. a t r i c o r n i s Strobl. Progr. Gymn. Seiten- 

 stetten. p.53 



Male. Dorsum of the thorax shining black; the humeri with 

 ferruginous or yellowish-green spots, which seem to be the remains 

 of the original ground color; the scutellum and the metanotum 

 also black. The abdomen a beautiful, bright green which becomes 

 paler or more yellowish in dried specimens. The posterior seg- 

 ments flattened, black, or blackish-brown; the forceps quite small 

 and slender. Head and palpi brownish ; the antennae brown, its 

 hairs lighter, the basal joint yellow. Legs pale yellowish, in life 

 somewhat greenish ; the coxae, the fore knees broadly, the middle 

 and hind knees narrowly brown banded, the tips of the tibiae and 

 the tips of the tarsal joints brownish ; the femora and the tibiae 

 of the fore legs of equal length; the fore metatarsus about one 

 fourth longer than its tibiae, and not bearded. Wings whitish, 

 with pale veins; venation as shown on pl.28, fig.16; the halteres 

 pale. 



Female. The female has yellow antennae with only black tips; 

 and the humeral si)ots are more spread out, appearing to crowd 

 the black dorsal i)atch into longitudinal stripes. Length 5.5 to 

 6 mm. Wisconsin (V. d. Wulp) ; New Jersey (Johnson). Several 

 male specimens from Ithaca, N. Y. 



