TIPUIvIM. 



Fig. 26. Tipnlidae. 23, Elliptera, sp. ; 24, Diotrepha mirabilis; 

 25, Rlnpidia snbpectinata; 26, Mongowa pallida; 27, Tipula subin- 

 fnscata; 28, Polymera albitarsis; 29, Geranomyia pallida; 30, 7>//- 

 cholabis complexa; 31, Rhamphidia albitarsis; 32, Atarba pleuralis. 



The name of 'daddy-long-legs' is the one usually 

 applied to members of this family in England, but in 

 America this term is generally used to designate the 

 Phalangidse or harvest spiders. The name 'crane-flies' 

 is preferable. Commonly they are harmless, but some 

 of the species in the larval state are very destructive, 

 feeding upon the tender rootlets of grass and grain, and 

 causing the plants over large surfaces to wither and die. 

 There are about twelve hundred species known. 



Trimicra pilipes; 9, Limnophila quac(rata; 10, Gnophomyia tristis- 

 sima; n. Rhypholophus rubellus; 12, Bittacomorpha clavipes; 13, 

 Anisomera neglecta; 14, Rhaphidolabis tenuipes; 15, Orimarga al- 

 piua; 16, Dicranomyia heretica; 17, Dicranomyia longipennis; 18, 

 Toxorhina tnagna; 19, Limnophila areolata; 20, Erioptera, sp. ; 

 zitHelobiapunctipennis; 22, Antocha opalizans. After Osten Sacken. 



