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ARTHROPODA 



PHYLÜM VII 



Tertiarv of Nortli America tlie same suborder is abundantly represented, especially 

 in tho Miocene lakc beds of Colorado, wliere thousands of individuals and hundreds 

 of species have been found. The suborder Cyclorrapha is likewise well represented 



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Funthetria falcatula Handl. Oligocene ; 

 Britisli Columbia, ^/i- 



Fig. 1582. 



Necromyza pedata Scudder. Miocene ; Oeiiingen, 

 Baden, i^/j (after Scudder). 



Fig. 1585. 



Chironomus meyeri Heer. Miocene ; Oeningen, 

 Baden. 6/i (after Heer). 



Bibw sticheli Handl. 9 Miocene ; Gotschee, Carlnthia 

 ö/i (after Handlirsch). 



Fig. 1586. 



Falemholus florigerus Scudder. 

 Miocene lake beds ; Florissant, 

 Colorado. 2/^ (after Scudder). 



in the Miocene of Colorado, wliere numerous species occur, also in British Columbia, 

 and in the Green River Eocene of Wyoming. In the European Tertiary nearly all 

 of the modern families are represented, a few examples of which are shown in the 

 accompanyiii,!^ Fius. 1582-86. The most interesting genus from the Florissant locality 

 18 Glossina, üi^ t^ctse tly, two species of which occur here but not elsewhere in the 

 Western woiid. ^ 



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