CONOPS. 
3gd 
while feeding, and, according to Linnaeus, proving 
beneficial to them by inducing a continual mo- 
tion, and thus preventing them from perishing by 
indolence and repletion ! ! ! 
Comps rostrata is of the size of a window-fly, 
and is black, with a yellow abdomen, and a strong, 
conic snout, the base being thicker than in other 
insects of the genus. 
