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&c.) bear a small piece (lade) which proves them to be basal 
parts of the first maxillz.? 
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ee 
Seen from above, the basi-proboscis shows a strong chitinous - 
hotseshoe-shaped thickening, with the open sinus forwards, lying 
The general form of the fulcrum reminds one of a ee 
stirrup which is suspended by its supero-posterior processes 
of some 
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| These chitin-bars (Fig. beg were shewn by me to be the ort tena and 
the palps. I shall here use ‘maxillary tendons” as the rendering 
““spangen der unterkiefer.’—G, M. Macloskie 
* Menzbier, uber das Kopfskelett, &c., der Zweiflügler, Moscow (18805 5 repre- 
(oc. cit., 1879); Dimmock (of. cit., 1881). I gave the view that the fule declined 
sents the endocranium of other insects. My friend Dimmock cane written 
to say yes or no to this theory, and Kraepelin, without noticing va 
on this head, here enunciates the view that it is i 
cesophagus, a view which I venture to say was shewn by me to 7 
oe consideration, especially with reference to what has been 
G. M. logy of the Diptera, has strengthened my faith in the end 
