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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVII. 



Macrocheles muscae n. sp. a, Adult female, dorsal view; b, ventral 

 view of body of female ; c, ventral view of distal end of tarsus of 

 leg II; d, left metasternalium ; e, tip of right palpus as seen from 

 above ; /, outside view of chela of left chelicera ; g, posterior part 

 of peritreme and stigmal plate showing the tracheal trunk filled with 

 air vacuoles. 



Crane-flies and Sweets (Diptera). 



Mr. Claude Morley, in The Entomologist, for July, 1913, mentions 

 observing Tipula sucking sweets. He says : "On May 23rd I was 

 much struck by the unwonted attitude of a female Tipula peliostigma, 

 which was sitting on a dogwood leaf with her body closely appressed. 

 This appeared so unusual in the insects of this genus, which seem 

 to invariably stand high upon the tips of their elongate legs, that I 

 looked more closely, and found that she was greedily sucking the 

 honey dew which had fallen from a batch of aphids. * * * I 

 have never met with Tipulae on honey dew before, and consider the 

 incident remarkable; but that the genus is fond of sweets is, I be- 

 lieve, a well known fact." He further mentions observing species 

 of this genus "distinctly sucking the sweets from the stylopods of 

 Angelica sylvestris * * *," and of taking them on overnight 

 "sugar," 



