224 CHIRONOMID^E. 



ninth to the thirteenth elongated-elliptical. Thorax with a few black 

 bristles. Wings hyaline, whitish when seen on a dark surface, with 

 hoary hairs ; veins pale ; costal veins with brownish tips. Halteres 

 white. Abdomen drown, pale beneath, flesh-colour in the living insect, 

 thickly covered with short whitish hairs. Legs pale ; knees blackish. 

 Not common. (E.) 



44. neglectus, Winn.! Linn. Ent. vi. 46. 44. pi. 6. f. 44. (1852). 

 Mas, obscure fuscus, palpis antennisque nigris, harum plumis nigris apice 

 albidis, thorace nigro-hirto, alis hyalinis nigro-pilosis, venis pallidis 

 apud costam nigris, halteribus nigro-fuscis, abdomine nigro-fusco, pedibus 

 pallide piceis, tarsis albidis articulis apice fuscis. Long. -|; alar. 1 lin. 



Male. Palpi black ; first joint long ; second short, almost cylindrical. 

 Antennae black, with black plumes, whose tips are glistening -white. 

 Thorax dark brown, dull, with a whitish glistening in some aspects, 

 clothed with black hairs. Wings hyaline, whitish when seen on a dark 

 surface, with black hairs ; veins pale, black towards the costa. Hal- 

 teres blackish-brown ; their knobs with almost grey tips. Abdomen black- 

 ish-brown, with black, hoary-glistening hairs. Legs pale piceous ; tarsi 

 whitish, their joints with dark tips. 



Not common. (E.) 



45. splendidus, Winn.! Linn. Ent. vi. 47. 45. pi. 6. f. 45 (1852). 

 Mas, albo-flavus, antennis auratis, pectore et scutello albis, alis pallide 

 fusco-flavis guttis duabus anticis et sex posterioribus nigris marginibus 

 apices versus pilosis, halteribus albis, abdomine atro segmentorum margini- 

 bus niveis, pedibus albidis cingulis nigris. Long. % ; alar. 1 lin. 



Male. Proboscis and palpi yellowish-white. Antennae and their plumes 

 gilded-yellow ; tips of the latter tinged with brown ; hind head hoary ; 

 vertex silvery -white. Thorax whitish-yellow, inclining to brown, finely 

 punctured with brown. Pectus, scutellum and metathorax white. Wings 

 pale brownish-yellow, appearing white on a dark surface, pubescent along 

 the apical half of the border, with eight black dots, two on the veins by 

 the costa, two in the disc, and four in a row hindward from half the 

 length of the border to the tips of the wing. Halteres ichite. Abdomen 

 deep black, with slight snow-white bands on the hind borders of the seg- 

 ments ; the four last segments appearing wholly white in some aspects. 

 Legs whitish ; tips of the femora, of the tibia, and of the joints of the 

 tarsi with black bands ; hind tarsi wholly black ; fore tibiae with a brown 

 subapical band ; hind tibiae toith two brown bands. 



(E.?) 



46. ochraceus, Winn. ! Linn. Ent. vi. 48. 46. pi. 6. f. 46 (1852). 

 Mas, ochraceo-flavus, palpis apice fuscescentibus, antennis fuscis, alis 

 limpidis nudis apices versus pubescentibus, venis distinctis plus minusve 

 fuscescentibus apud costam apice incrassatis, pedibus pallidioribus. 

 Long, f ; alar. H lin. 



Male. Ochraceous-yellow. Palpi with brownish tips. Antenna 

 brown ; joints elliptical ; ninth and the four following much elongated. 



