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DiPTEKA. 



Several species have been found in Europe under the barlr 

 of apple trees, etc. Loew states "that the species on which 

 Wagner made his observations is nearl}' allied 

 to the genus Heteropeza, l)ut still more closely 

 to the genus jMonodicrana, from the amber of 

 the Tertiary formation on the shores of the 

 Baltic. (Zoological Record, 1865.) Meinert de- 

 scribes a similar species of worm and its imago, 

 under the name of 3Iiastor metroloas, and charac- 

 terizes the fly as having very short two-jointed 



" palpi, and moniliform eleven-jointed antennie. 



,j The wings have three Aeins, the middle one of 

 which does not reach the apex of the wing. 



PsYCHODiD.E Zetterstedt. The principal genus 

 in this small family is Psychoda^ comprising 

 ^ small flies with broad, very short, oval whitish 

 Fig. 297. wings, which, like the body, are very hairy. 

 They may be seen flying and leaping on the banks of, or on the 

 surface of pools, and on windows. The larvae live in dung. 

 The larva of the European P. phaloenoides (so named from its 

 resemblance to a moth) is "long, subfusiform and depressed, 

 with a slender, straight cylindrical tail, longer than the pro- 

 ceding segment. The pupa has two short appendages, thick- 

 ened at the tips behind the head. The abdomen is tapering.' 

 (Westwood.) 



TipuLiD.E Latreille. The Daddj-long-legs or Crane-flies 

 are well known by their large size and long legs, and from their 

 close resemblance in form have probably given rise to th(' 

 humorous stories of giant mosquitoes, which sometimes appear 

 in newspapers. They are characterized by their slender an- 

 tennae and palpi, and their remarkablj'' long legs, while the 

 abdomen is very slender and cylindrical in shape ; the grou]) 

 chiefly differs, however, from other flies, according to 15aro:) 

 Osten Sacken (Monograph of the Diptcra of North Americr.. 

 Part iv), in the presence of a transverse V-shaped suture 

 across the inesonotum ; by the completeness of the venation. 

 and the presence of a well developed ovipositor, " with its two 



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