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pellucid. Body greyish, oblong and nar- 

 row. A while scale was placed on each 

 side at the insertion of the wings. The 

 legs were black, witli a white joint in the 

 middle of each, the base being speckled. 

 The hind part of the shoulders was whitish. 

 Antenuce simple, minute, parallel, and point- 

 ing right forward. The wings lay one over 

 the other so as to resemble a single one, 

 notched at the extremity, when the insect 

 was at rest. Each of os was beset by a 

 whole lep;ion of these flies towards sun-set. 

 What rendered them peculiarly trouble- 

 some was their manner of running over 

 the face, and flying into the nose, mouth 

 and eyes. When they were approaching 

 in order to inflict their bite, they w^re not 

 to be driven away by our blowing ever so 

 hard. The Laplanders call these insects 

 Mockeix, allydiiig to the smallness of their 

 head ; the Swedes Knott. {Culex reptans. 

 Linnaeus mentions in the Fauna Suecica 

 the extremely tiresome noise made by these 

 gnats in their approach.) They covered 



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