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PLATE XXII. 



TIPULA PLUMOSA. 



Plumose, or Sea Tipula. 



DiPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a very fhort membranaceous probofcis, the back 

 grooved and receiving a bridle : beak fhort and without a fheath : 

 feelers two, incurved, filiform and longer than the head : antennae 

 .filiform in general. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



f Thorax greenifh : wings white glofTed with piifinatic hues, and 

 a brown dot : antennae feathered. 



Tipula Plumosa : thorace virefcente, alis albis : pun&o fufco, 

 antennis plumofis. Fair. S/>. Inf. 2. p. 406. 

 ». 31. — Mant. Inf. '?;. />. 324. n. 37. 



Tipula thorace virefcente, alis hyalinis puncto nigro. Linn. Syfl. 

 Nut. xii. 2. p. 974. n. 26.— Fn. Suec. 1?58» 



is found in the month of April in marfhy places, and has fre- 

 quently been miflaken for the common gnat. 



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