238 CHIRONOMID^E. 



is a blackish-brown band ; fore tibiae blackish-brown at the base and at 

 the tips, and with a blackish-brown band near the base ; middle femora 

 and middle tibiae with black tips, the latter black also at the base ; hind 

 femora and hind tibiae black, each with a whitish-yellow middle band ; 

 fore femora with three spines ; middle femora with one spine. 

 (B.P) 



79. taeniatus, n. Hal. MSS. Fcem. " cinereus, opacus, thorace 

 fusco-quadrilineato, alis nudis obscure hyalinis, areola cubitali unica, 

 halteribus albidis, abdomine albido vittis tribus piceis intermedia in- 

 terrupta, pedibus anterioribus ferrugineis fusco-annulatis, posticis nigris 

 ferrugineo-annulatis, femoribus anticis subtus bispinosis. Long. If ; 

 alar. 3 lin. 



" Fern. Head dusky-cinereous. Orbit behind the eyes ciliated with 

 black. Eyes coppery or brassy (in life). Palpi and antennae blackish- 

 brown. Antennae scarcely as long as the thorax ; first joint large, black ; 

 second short-obconical, thicker and longer by half than the third ; those 

 which follow globose, then rather ovate; five last elongate-elliptical. 

 Thorax cinereous opaque, very delicately and thickly pubescent with 

 dusky, marked in front with two dark brown lines abbreviated at the 

 depression (before the scutellum), besides a fainter line on each side 

 abbreviated in front, and connected (as usual) with some small spots 

 there. Scutellum pitchy, a little glossy at the tip. Wings naked, ob- 

 scure hyaline, with the thicker veins light yellowish ; one cubital areolet ; 

 first externo-medial vein nearly interstitial, scarcely retracted. Halteres 

 pale yellowish. Abdomen dingy-white, with an interrupted band down 

 the middle (or a series of spots), and an entire band down each side, 

 blackish-brown. Legs thickly pubescent with dusky ; fore femora 

 black, pitchy at the base, with two spines below near the middle ; fore 

 tibiae dark ferruginous, with the base and tip and a ring (sometimes 

 obsolete) before the middle dusky ; fore tarsi dusky, with the first two 

 joints ferruginoxis except the tip ; middle legs similarly marked, only 

 the femora towards the base are more clearly ferruginous ; the base itself 

 dusky, and the middle ring of the tibiae is wanting ; hind femora black 

 at the base, then ferruginous for about half their length, the tip largely 

 black ; tibiae black, with a broad ferruginous band, ciliated externally ; 

 tarsi with the basal joints more obscurely ferruginous ; ungues within 

 armed with a very minute tooth. Conf. C. circumdatus, Zett. D. Sc. 

 3658. 41. 



" Found at Toome Bridge, Antrim, Deny. (I.) 



" Ols. C. solstitialis, Winn., differs by the halteres being dusky 

 at the tip, by the colour of the abdomen, and by the pale tarsi, 

 with black joints." Hal. MSS. 



Var. ? " Thorace cinereo fusco-bilineato, antennis palpis scutelloque 

 fusco-ferrugineis, pedibus ferrugineis fusco-annulatis, halteribus abdo- 

 mineque albidis, alis nudis hyalinis, areola cubitali unica, femoribus 

 anticis subtus parce spinulosis. Long. 1^ ; alar. 3 lin. 





