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DIPTERA. 



Several species have been found in Europe under tlie bark 

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

 Wagner made his observations is nearly allied 

 to the genus Heteropeza, but still more closely 

 to the genus Monodicrana, from the amber of 

 the Tertiary foi'mation on the shores of the 

 Baltic. (Zoological Record, 18G5.) Meinert de- 

 scribes a similar species of worm and its inijigo, 

 under the name of JMiastor metroloas, and charac- 

 terizes the fly as having very short two-jointed 

 "" palpi, and moniliform eleven-jointed antcnnte. 

 o The wings have three veins, the middle one of 

 Avliich does not reach the apex of the wing. 



PsYciioDiD.E Zetterstedt. The principal genus 

 in this small family is Psychoda, comprising 

 small flies with broad, veiy 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 larva? live in dung. 

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

 resemblance to a moth) is "long, subfusiform and dei)rcssed, 

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

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

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

 (Westwood.) 



TiPULiD.E Latreille. The Daddy-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 the 

 humorous stories of giant mosquitoes, which sometimes appear 

 in newspapers. The}- are characterized by their slender an- 

 tennre and palpi, and their remarkably long legs, while the 

 abdomen is very slender and cylindrical in shai)e ; the group 

 chiefly differs, however, from other flies, according to Eaion 

 Osten Sacken (Monograph of the Diptcra of North America, 

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

 across the rnesonotum ; by the completeness of the venation, 

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



