jo8 . Rev. Mr. KlRBv'i Continuation of the 



The antennae of this very minute infcft are exceedingly fingu- 

 lar {g). The firft joint is long, rigid, and clavate (/^) ; examined 

 in a certain direftion obcordato-bifid at the apex; this divifion ferves 

 as a focket for tlie next joint to a6t in (/), which is conne6ted with 

 it by means of a ftrong membrane or mufcle (/'), and performs the 

 part of a ball or pivot : the four next joints are perfe6lly globu- 

 lar (/), and extremely minute : the clava, unlefs under a very power- 

 ful magnifier, appears folid ; but, in that cafe, it is plainly difcerncd 

 to confifl of four articulations very clofely fet together (w). 



2. Tipula. I. niger; antennis bafi pedibufquerufis; tibiis pofticis cla- 

 vatis apice nigris ; abdomine obovato («). 



Corpus nigrum. Antenna fradlae vibratoriae, thorace longiores, 

 rufae articulis qaatuor ultimis majoribus nigris. Caput et tho- 

 rax fubobfcuri. Ala avenifc immaculatas, corpore longiores. 

 Abdomen obovatum, nitidifllmum, fubdeprefTum, fubfeffile. Pedes 

 jufi f. rufo-teftacei, tibiis clavatis, pofticis apice nigris. 



Longitudo corporis infra lineam. 



'fipulce Tritici larvis contemporaneus, infeftus, quibus concredit 

 ovula fua, ovum unicum deponens fingulis. 



The antenna; of this infe£t, as well as every other part, are ex- 

 tremely different from thofe of the lad. They confifl: firfi: of a very 

 long joint rather flexuous (o) ; from this to the four lafl: joints, 

 under a powerful magnifier, we could difcover no articulations (/>), 

 and yet from the mode in which this part of the antennae appears 

 fometimes to be bent, I cannot help fufpecting that there are fome. 



