Family 5. TIPULID/C. Ci'di/ejl ies. Glints. Easily recognized by the V-shaped seam on the upper 

 chest, between the wings anil the very long fragile legs. Their larva; are grub-like, gray, brown or white, and 

 live in rotten wood, mould, earth or fungi, on leaves or in the water, feeding on water-plants. 



KEY TO THE TIPULID.E. 



( Ibserve : If ihe first length-vein from the edge of the wing turns at its end into the next vein, and does not connect with the 



edge; and if this secund vein, at the point of the wing, turns into the next vein (jig- fl.) : - Cteitophora and Tipula 

 If the first length-vein runs into the edge of the wing and there connects by a cross-vein with the next vein: and 

 if this second vein at the point runs into the edge of the wing ( fig. b) : 



And if the third vein, branching from the middle of the second vein runs with two ends into the edt;e ( fi^. />) : 



With no spurs at the end of shank - - Limnobina. 



With spurs at the end of shank Cylindrotomina. 



Or, if the third vein branches again and runs with three ends into the edge ( fig. c) : 



With no spurs at the end of shank - Eriofiterina. 



With spurs at the end of shank, and a long snout - - I'tychopterina. 



If the cross-vein connecting the second vein with the hrst is before, nearer the point of the wing, where the third 

 vein branches from the second (fig.b): ....... I.imnophilinu and Anisomeriiia. 



Or, if the cros-.-vt-in connecting the second vein with the first is behind, nearer the shoulder of the wing, where the 

 thirit vein branches from the second {Jfg~. C) : - - - Aitttilopiiitr 



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