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68. Chironomus nigritibia Walker 



1848 Chironomus Walker. Last Dipt. Brit. Mus. 1 : 16 

 1878 Cliironomus Ost. Sack. Cat'l. Dipt. N. A. p.21 



Wings bare; chest black; abdomen yellow at the base; palpi 

 brown ; legs yellow ; tips of thighs and of shanks, and of joints of 

 tlie feet, black ; wings colorless ; a broad brown band across each 

 \Aing, faint toward the hind border; veins brown; yellow towards 

 the base; poisers lemon-color. Length of body 2.25 lines (=4.5 

 mm.); of wings 4.5 lines (=9 mm.). St Martin's falls, Albany 

 river, Hudson's bay. Walker, loc. cit. 



This species may be the same as C. b r a c h i a 1 i s Ooq. 



69. Chironomus borealis Curtis 



1831 ChiTonomus Curtis. Ross' Voyage. LXXVII 

 1878 Chironomus Ost. Sack. Cat'l. Dipt. N. A. p.20 



Black, thorax gTay, abdomen with 7 whitish rings; co'sta fus- 

 cous; legs lurid. Length, 6 mm. Breadth, 12 mm. 



Black, basal joint of the antennae ochreous; thorax hoary; 

 abdomen clothed with long subdepressed yellowish hairs, the mar- 

 gins of the segments shining whitish or silvery; wings lacteous, 

 opalescent, the costa fuscous, the nervures darker; halteres 

 yellow ; legs dull castaneous ochre, tips of the thighs and tarsi 

 fuscous. Arctic regions. Curtis, loc. cit. Greenland. 



According to Lundbeck (1898) this species may be the same as 

 either C. hyperboreus, or C. staegeri, though Curtis' 

 description is too brief to admit of a positive statement. 



70. Chironomus albistria Walker 



1848 Chironomus Walker. List Dipt. Brit. Mus. 1 : 17 



1878 Chironomus Ost. Sadc. Caf 1. Dipt. N. A. p.20 



Male. Body reddish brown ; stripes on tlie chest red or flesh- 

 color; side stripes passing into two broad white stripes; sides of 

 chest hoary; scutcheon jtale red; abdomen dark brown, hairy; 

 sutures of tlie segments paler; feelers pale brown; legs pale 

 tawny, hairy; tips of thighs, of shanks, of feet, darker; wings 

 whitish, not hairy; veins pale yellow; poisers white. Length of 

 Iho body .3 lines (-=6 mm.) ; of the wings 4.5 lines (=9 mm.). St 

 Martin's falls, Albany river, Hudson's bay. Walker, loc. cit. 



71. Chironomus brunneus Walker 



1848 Chironomus Walker. List Dipt. Brit. Mus. 1 : 21 

 1878 Chironomus Ost. Sack. Cat'l. Dipt. N. A. p.20 



Male. Wings hairy. Head and chest bi-own, the latter with 

 the usual three stripes of a pale gray color; abdomen of a yel- 



