26 TEIBES OF THE 



Never nipped in at the middle ; 

 Legs bejoud all reason lengthy ; 

 Flight both weali and very flagging. 

 Larvge fat and ugly maggots, 

 Living in the earth, and feeding 

 On the roots of plants and herbage, 

 Also on decaying timber. 

 Pupa without any sheilcase, 

 Breathing through two horns porrected. 

 Next, the true Gnats so bloodthirsty, 

 Gnats or Midges, Culicina, 

 Musquitoes or Culicina : 

 Males with feathery antennae. 

 Females with bloodsucking rostrum ; 

 Both have heads of small dimensions ; 

 Rather long and slender bodies. 

 Not nipped in or slender waisted ; 

 Legs are long and very slender. 

 In this country some few species 

 Of these Midges or Musquitoes 

 Seek our faces in the niglittime ; 

 With a gentle hum approaching, 

 And an aperture creatmg 

 With their sharply pointed lancets, 

 Thence imbibe the purple cuirent. 

 Causing us but sHght annoyance ; 

 But in many other countries 

 Swarms of hungry Culicina 



