ORTHORRHAFHA 

 Nematocera 



Psychodidae 



Fig. 8. Piiicoma compta Eat. 2 x 85 mm. Rarely 

 sucks blood : larvae at|uatic. Larvae of l\'ricoina 

 have 2 rows of curved veins down the bodv. 



Fig. 9. Psychoda plutlaeiioidcs L. 12 xi. 1S91. 

 4 mm. from tip of win.iC to base of abdomen. Larvae 

 live in rotting vegetable matter and dung ; the pupae 

 inactive, with 2 long tubes like antenna stigmata. 

 The abdomen tapering. ^Theobald.) 



Fig. 10. Psycliodii sex'ftuitctiitii C\.\x\.. 3x7 mm. On 

 windows in .-Vpril. The larvae live in dry cow- 

 dung. They are long, subfusiform and depressed, 

 with a slender straight cylindrical tail, longer than 

 the preceding segment. (Figured by Bouche and 

 M. Perrin.) (Theobald.) Grantchester. 



