CHIRONOMIDAE FROM THE BATU CAVES, MALAYA (Diptera : Nematocera)

The material described below is part of a collection made in 1959 by Dr. H. E. McClure in the Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. The specimens were sent to me by Dr. Laurence W. Quate of the Bishop Museum, Hawaii, to whom the types and the bulk of the collection have been returned. Paratypes of all the new species have been retained in the British Museum (Natural History). The collections were in spirit and there were about 60 tubes, some containing large numbers of specimens. Most of the material was taken at light in Cavern C, but there were also a few tubes from Caverns A, B, D and F. The Chironomidae fell into only three species, two belonging to the genera Pentaneura and Paratendipes, the third I have placed in a new genus of the Parakiefferiella group of the Orthocladiinae. Previously I would have placed the last species in Smittia, but Brundin (1956) has given a revision of the genera of the subfamily and has shown that this course is no longer permissible. There is a second species of this new genus from Africa, but it is not associated with caves.