THE CHIRONOMID. 193 
(aa). Thorax with three dark stripes. 
iv. Very pale reddish-brown. Thorax | 
with three dark gray stripes, middle one 
divided, scutellum white, metathorax 
gray. Wings slightly milky white, with 
three irregular and faint pale brown 
bands ; transverse veinlet clouded with 
darker brown. Abdomen whitish, hairy, 
a pale brown band on each segment. 
Legs white, long, slender. Length, 
3 lin. y 
~ Punctatus, F. 
v. Gray. Thorax almost white ; three \ . 
brown stripes. Wings whitish, with 
several gray dots and with a dark brown | Punctipennis, Mg. 
mark near middle of costa. Legs white, | =cinctus, Panz. 
with black tips to the joints. Length, 
3 lin. Common. 
vi. Three ferruginous stripes on the 
thorax. Body of ¢ grayish, with brown 
sutures to segments ; 2 reddish-brown. 
Wings with three irregular gray bands, 
one apical, the third a little before 
| middle of wing, middle one very slender 
‘ and pale. Length, 14 to 2 lin. 
vii. Pale testaceous. Thorax with ) 
" three red stripes. Three indistinct 
pale brown bands on the wings. Abdo- 
men in ¢ whitish and hairy, with - Zonatus, F. 
dark brown band on each segment ; in 
the ? it is pale reddish-brown. Length, 
2 to 3 lin. Not rare (Walker). ; 
vili. Testaceous. Thorax three brown 
stripes ; metathorax gray. Four brown 
discal spots on wings, two in front, two |. Zae/us, Mg. 
behind, tips faintly striped with gray. 
Length, 14 to 2 lin. Rare. 
ix. 2 brown. Thorax white, three 
brown stripes. Gray spot on hind 
border of wings at one-fourth of length 
and gray band a little beyond middle, | 
Carneus, F. 
= albipes, Fries., Mg. 
~~ 
Culiciformis, F. 
nearly absent in the disc. Length, 
# lin. Rare. 
