212 CHIRONOMIDjE. 



Male and Fern. Black. Thorax blackish-grey, clothed with short yellow 

 and long black hairs. Scutellum with black hairs. Sides of the pectus 

 in front, and fore pectus, with dingy-white marks. Wings whitish ; their 

 hairs grey, brownish in front ; veins pale, brown towards the costa. 

 Halteres white. Abdomen and legs blackish-brown, clothed with long 

 blackish-grey or almost black hairs. Femora and tibiae rather thick ; 

 tarsi a whitish-yellow, with blackish-brown tips. Male. Plumes of the 

 antennas with glistening-white tips. Fern. Antennas yellowish ; the five 

 apical joints brown. 



Not common. (E.) 



9. lepidus, Winn. ! Linn. Ent. vi. 23. 9. pi. 3. f. 7 (1852). Mas, 

 niger, capite postico nigro-hirto, antennarum plumis apice albo-niten- 

 tibus, thorace subnitido submetallico-viridi aurato-hirto nigro-setoso, 

 pectoris lateribus obscure piceis, alls hyalinis cano-pilosis, venis fusces- 

 centibus apud costam nigro-fuscis, halteribus albis nigro-petiolatis, ab- 

 domine nigro-fusco,pilis longis albo-flavis,pedibus piceo-fuscis, femoribus 

 tibiisque vix incrassatis, tarsis albidis albo-flavo-pilosis, articulis apice 

 fuscis. Long. 1 ; alar. 2 lin. 



Male. Black. Hind part of the head with black hairs. Plumes of 

 the antennas glistening-white towards the tips. Thorax slightly shining, 

 with a tinge of metallic green, clothed with gilded hairs ; sides, shoul- 

 ders, and border of the scutellum with long black bristles ; sides of 

 the pectus piceous, dull. Wings hyaline, appearing whitish on a dark 

 ground, clothed with hoary down ; veins brownish, blackish-brown to- 

 wards the costa. Halteres black, with white knobs. Abdomen blackish- 

 brown, clothed with long whitish-yellow hairs ; under side with grey, 

 yellowish-glistening. Legs piceous-brown ; femora and tibiae hardly 

 incrassated ; tarsi whitish, clothed with whitish-yellow hairs, their joints 

 with brown tips. 



(K?) 



10. brevipennis, Mcq. H. N. D. i. 123. 7 (1834); Meig.; Winn.! 

 Linn. Ent. vi. pi. 3. f. 10. Mas et Fcem. niger, nitidus, pectoris lateri- 

 bus pectoreque antico flavo-albo-notatis, thorace pills nonnullis nigris, 

 alls albidis cano-pilosis, venis pallide fuscis apud costam obscurioribus, 

 abdomine pilis longis densis nigris vestito, pedibus nigro-hirtis, tarsis 

 nonnunquam pallidis ; Mas, antennarum plumis apice albidis ; Fcem. alis 

 abbreviatis, pilis densioribus obscurioribus, abdomine lato. 



Male and Jam. Black, sinning. A little dingy whitish-yellow tuft 

 on each side of the pectus, before the wings, and on the fore pectus. 

 Thorax thinly covered with black hairs. Wings whitish, with hoary 

 hairs ; veins pale brown, darker towards the costa. Abdomen thickly 

 clothed with long black hairs. Legs with black hairs, occasionally 

 piceous ; tarsi often tawny or yellow. Male. Plumes of the antennae 

 glistening-white towards the tips. Fern. Joints of the antennae from 

 the first to the eighth cylindrical, from the ninth to the thirteenth oval, 

 the latter with white-glistening hairs. Wings obtuse oval, shorter and 



