THE CHIRONOMIDA. 563 
Wings clothed with dusky hairs, and having a white dot beyond the 
middle of the costa; veins brown toward the costal region ; paler 
in the @ than in the 9. Legs with long pale hairs. Femora and 
tibize slightly thickened in the female. Length, 1 lin. Generally 
distributed and very abundant, especially in damp places and along 
rivers. 
C. pulicaris, L. = C. punctata, Latr. 
Gray. Head brown. Plumes of antennze in ¢ yellowish, shiny 
in some lights; brown in the @Q ; first eight joints oval, remainder 
elongate. Thorax with a dark stripe on each side in front of the 
wings. Pectus and scutellum brown. Abdomen dark brown 
sutures of the segments pale, nearly white. Wings white, with 
brown dots, the three along the costa being the largest, and much 
darker than the remainder. Legs pale brown; posterior tibicze very 
pale; tarsi also very pale, dark at the joints. Length, about 1 lin. 
An abundant and widely-distributed species, often occurring in dense 
clouds in damp and marshy places, especially in the evenings in 
sultry weather, 
C. nitidus, Macq. 
Black and shiny. Head dark brown; plumes of the ¢ antennz 
with bright white tips; in the 2 the antenne are often yellow 
towards the base; the first to eighth joints are oval, the ninth to 
thirteenth elongated; the first joint longer than the second and 
following. ‘Thorax deep black. Abdomen with the two first seg- 
ments transparent; in the ? the abdomen is much contracted at 
the base, where there are present a few white shiny hairs, as also on 
the tip of the abdomen and on the hind borders of the segments ; 
on the ventral side is a large subapical tuft of long black hairs. 
Wings lanceolate; veins pale. Legs tawny, with black markings ; 
first and second tarsal joints pale, with dark tips; third, fourth, and 
fifth black, the third pale at the base; ungues short and slender in 
the ¢@, stout and long in the 92; plante in ¢ with short, slender 
spines, in the ? with five or six pairs of stout spines. Length, 1} 
to 2 lin. A common and generally distributed species. 
C. lineatus, Mg. 
Head gray ; palpi brown, with first and second joints pale yellowish. 
Thorax pale dirty-white, with two stripes and two spots of a reddish- 
brown colour, the spots being placed behind the stripes. Scutellum 
brown ; metathorax dark brown. Abdomen dark brown, with pale 
sutures. Antenne in ¢ dark brown, the plumes pale yellowish- 
