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I have had no European specimens for comparison, but Schiner’s 
and Zetterstedt’s descriptions fit my specimens perfectly. 
Chirocnomus ithacanensis new name 
A ew mane ior C. CaliISimOsSus Jones CAligim@s ms 
is preoccupied for a fossil species. 
Chironomus maturus n. sp. 
Male. ‘The front, outer eye margin, two rather slender frontal 
tubercles, pale yellow; antennae dark brown, hairs pale brown; 
face, proboscis and palpi subfuscous; basal joint of the antennae 
gray pollinose. Thorax gray with three blackish stripes, humeri 
yellowish, scutellum subfuscous, thorax - wholly covered with a 
grayish bloom. Abdomen dark brown, apical one fourth of: each 
segment yellow, which appears silvery when viewed from behind; 
posterior segments and genitalia nearly wholly grayish, the latter 
slender, resembling those of C. decorus. legs brownish yel- 
low, the base of each femur, the knees, the fore tibiae and tarsi 
more brownish, coxae gray, trochanters yellow, pulvilli brushlike, 
empodium pectinate, anterior tarsi sparsely. but long haired, fore- 
metatarsus about one third longer than the. tibia. Wangs hyaline, 
anterior veins yellowish brown, cross vein dark brown, cubitus 
forks under the cross vein. Halteres yellowish. Length 7 to8 mm. 
_ Female. Like the male but with broader wings and with 
Flahily longer (proportionally ) metatarsus. Ithaca, IN, Wo, avelhy 
spring species. 
Chironomus redeuns Walker 
Specimens from Ithaca, N. Y., Illinois, and Boulder, Col., appear 
iO DE WHS Specres, Ine GHSSIES rOSSMINIES, iri Swear US>. chal 
Hiparius, but is smaller than either, and the foremetatarsus is 
nearly or ite 1.6 times the tibia in length, foretarsi bare; im color- 
ing it resembles riparius. 
Chironomus barbipes Staeger 
A male and female specimen from Harrisburg, Pa. - It has pre- 
viously been recorded from: Chicago. 
Chironomus devinctus Say 
ine foretarsi Onthe male are bare. | ron Old Moree, N. Vi 
