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to a little beyond the lobe yellowish ; cross vein no darker than the 

 adjacent veins ; cubitus forks distad of the cross vein. Halteres 

 yellow. Length 4 mm. Two female specimens from Old Forge, 

 N. Y., taken July 8, 1905. 



Chironomus albistria Walker 



A reddish brown species of medium size. The whitish side stripes 

 mentioned by Walker are due to pollen and are best seen when 

 the specimen is held obliquely ; usually more or less rubbed in 

 captured specimens. The foremetatarsus is about an eighth longer 

 than the tibia in female specimens. Specimens from Old Forge, 

 N. Y., Illinois, and Pennsylvania. 



Chironomus stylifera n. sp. 



Male. Head sordidly yellow, palpi and proboscis pale fuscous, 

 basal joint of the antennae testaceous, flagellum and its hairs brown. 

 Thorax yellow with a slight greenish tinge ; sternum and the three 

 thoracic stripes testaceous ; metanotum brown, with the anterior 

 margin yellow. Abdomen uniformly green, pale brown toward the 

 apical end. Genitalia brown, dorsal keel nearly straight, very slen- 

 der, styliform, lateral lobes stout, shaped like a pistol handle, superior 

 and inferior lobes much retracted and inconspicuous. Forelegs 

 brown, basal two thirds of femur, and of metatarsus, and middle 

 section of tibia somewhat paler brown; tarsi hairy; foretarsi 

 bearded ; middle and hind legs yellow, hairy, tips of tibiae brown, 

 tarsi except the basal section of the metatarsi, infuscated; fore- 

 metatarsus one fourth longer than the tibia ; pulvilli nearly as long 

 as the claws. Wings hyaline, anterior veins yellowish, the cross 

 vein but little darker ; cubitus forks under the cross vein. Halteres 

 yellow. Length 6.5 mm. Ithaca, N. Y. 



Chironomus lugens Kieffer 



A new name proposed by Kieffer -(1906) for C. lugubris 

 Williston, which is preoccupied. 



Chironomus leptopus Kieffer 



Proposed by Kieffer ( 1906) for C. longimanus Williston, 

 preoccupied. 



Chironomus connexus Kieffer 



Proposed by Kieffer ( 1906) for C . c o n f i n i s Walker, pre- 

 occupied. 



