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37. Chironomus lineatus Say 



1823 Chironomus Say. Journ. Acad. Nat Sc. Phil. 3 : 14, 5 

 1859 Chironomus Say. Compl. Wr. 2:42, 5 



1828 Chironoinus lineola Wiedemann. Aussereurop. zweifl. Ins. 



1:17, 6 



1878 Chironomus Osten Sacken. Cat'l. Dipt N. A. p.21 

 1899 Chironomus lineola Wied. Johnson in Smith's Cat'l. of 



Ins. N. J. p.626 



Wings white ; stethidium yellowish testaceous, a fuscous longi- 

 tudinal line on the anterior dilated line. 



Thorax pale greenish, the dilated lines yellowish testaceous, a 

 longitudinal narrow line very distinct and fuscous on the anterior 

 dilated line, and green rather obsolete behind; scutel pale; wings 

 immaculate; feet w r hitish, incisures of the knees of the inter- 

 mediate and posterior feet brown ; tergum greenish, posterior 

 margins of the incisures dusky. Length of the female nearly 

 three tenths of an inch (7.5 mm.). Pennsylvania. Say, loc. cit. 

 New Jersey (Johnson). 



38. Chironoinus albipennis Meigen 

 1830 Chironomus Meigen. Syst. Beschr. 6 : 248, 87 

 1850 Chironomus Zett Dipt Scand. 9:3526, 46 

 1864 Chironomus Schiner. Fauna Austr. 2 : 608 



1877 Chironomus V. d. Wulp. Dipt. Neerl. 257, 14 



1899 Chironomus Johnson, in Smith's Catalogue of Ins. of N. J. 

 p.627 



(Shining ferruginous; thorax with three chestnut longitudinal 

 stripes; a spot on each pleuron and the metanotum more or less 

 brown; the scutellum yellow. The abdomen green, in dried speci- 

 mens brownish above, the anal segments flattened, the forceps 

 short and sublanceolate, the arms incurved, and hairy. Palpi and 

 antennae brown, the hairs of the latter lighter at the tip. Legs 

 pale yellow, the tarsal joints usually darkened; sometimes the ex- 

 treme tips of the tibiae are also darkened ; fore tarsus of the male 

 delicately but distinctly haired, its metatarsus an eighth longer or 

 at least as long as its tibia. Wings white, the costal veins of the 

 female ferruginous, the crossvein not darkened. Halteres pale. 

 Length 5 to 6 mm. A specimen from New Jersey is doubtfully 

 identified as this species by Johnson (1899). 



I have a purchased specimen, collector unknown, bearing the 

 label C. albipennis, Riverton, N. J., but which in reality 

 is not albipennis, but is C. nigricans n. sp. 



39. Chironomus taenionotus Say 



1829 Chironomus Say. Journ. Acad. Nat Sc. Phil. 6 : 149 

 1859 Chironomus Say. Oompl. Wr. 2:349 



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



