Rev, Mr. Kinsy’s Hiflory of Tipula Tritict, ec. 231 
Naturalifts, and, in conjun@ion with your own obfervations, and 
the information you will procure from the ingenious and accurate 
Mr. Markwick and other friends, be not unworthy of the notice of 
the public. 
In the year 1795, when you firft began to inveftigate this fubjeé, 
I obferved very few of the larve in queftion; and confidering the 
Thrips phyfapus as occafioning the greateft quantity of injury, my 
chief attention was directed to that infe&t; but in the prefent feafon 
I have more particularly attended to the formers Wherever I haye 
taken my walks, I have made it my bufinefs to examine thofe fields 
of wheat through which I have paffed, and I have fearcely paffed 
through any in which fome florets, of every ear that I examined, 
were not inhabited by thefe larvz ; and this has often been at fome 
diftance from hence. But although I have found the larve fo 
abundant, the pupa has very feldom occurred to me; fo that for 
fifty of the former, I think I may fay without exaggeration I have 
fcarcely found one of the latter. As many asI collected, I put into 
a tumbler covered with gauze, in which they remained {ome time 
without any imago making its appearance. At length I obferved 
the exuvia of one lie at the bottom of the glafs; but the imago, I 
fuppofe, had made its efcape through the gauze, as I could not find 
it. Upon thisI put the remaining ones into a fmall phial, the 
mouth of which I fecured with gauze four times doubled, and tied 
. clofe. About three weeks fince, examining this one day, I obferved 
‘afmall fly walking upits fides: I opened it carefully, and fecured my 
little animal, which upon examination appeared to be a very minute 
Tipula, nearly of the colour of the pupa. It is not defcribed in 
Gmelin’s edition of the Syffema Natura, nor by any author that I 
have accefs to; therefore I thall defcribe it, and the little Jcebneumcn 
which depofits its egg in its larva. 
TIPULA. 
