2oS ORDER VI. Tipula. 



Genus II. Tipula. 

 Linn. Syft. Nat. page 970. 



The head of the Tipula is long, or 

 feems lengthened out. 



The upper jaw is formed like an 

 arch. 



The palpi are two in number, curve, 

 and longer than the head. 



The probofcis is fhort, and bent in- 

 wards. 



They are divided into two feftions, the 

 firft containing thofe in which the wings 

 are open or extended when at reft ; the 

 other thofe whofe wings cover the body 

 horizontally when fitting. 



Scopoli has divided the tipulae into two fa- 

 milies, in the firft of which their antennas are pec- 

 tinated in the males, both fexes in the other have 

 fimple antennse. 



1 Geoffroy 



