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Various Insects affecting the Potato Crops. 



Fig. 39. Female Tipula Oleracea, or crane-fly. 

 Fig 1 . 40. Abdomen of the male of Tipula maculosa. 

 Fig. 41. Female Tipula maculosa. 

 Fig. 42. Larva or maggot of the same. 

 Fig. 43. The same contracted. 



p.* The tail or stern, viewed in front. 

 Fig. 44. The pupa state of the same. 



Fig. 45. Geophiltis electricus (?), or Anthronomalus longicornis. 

 Fig. 46.* Acarus or Tyroglyphus farinm : the flour-mite. 



q. The natural size. 

 Fig. 47.* Psychoda nervosa. 



r. The natural dimensions. 

 Fig. 48.* Pupa, view of the back. 

 Fig. 49.* Ditto, ditto, the underside. 

 Fig. 50.* Ditto, ditto, nearly in profile and attenuated. 



s. The natural size. 

 Fig. 51.* Larva or maggot of Sciara quinquelineata. 



t. The natural size. 

 Fig. 52.* Pupa of the same. 



u. The natural size. 

 Fig. 53.* Sciara (or Molobrus) quinquelineata, 



v. The natural dimensions. 

 Fig. 54.* Musca stabulans. 



w. The natural dimensions. 

 Fig. 55. The larva or maggot of the same. 

 Fig. 56. The pupa. 



Fig. 57.* Anthomyia (or Homalomyia) tuberosa. 



x. The natural dimensions. 

 Fig. 58.* Larva of the same. 



y. The natural size. 

 Fig. 59.* Drosophila cellaris, the cellar-fly. 



z. The natural dimensions. 

 Fig. 60.* The larva or maggot of the same. 



a. The natural size. 

 Fig. 61.* Pupa of the same. 



b. The natural size. 



Fig. 62.* Chelifer in&qualis, a false-scorpion. 



c. The natural size. 



Fig. 63.* Vibrio (or Rhabditis) tuber culorum, greatly magnified. 



Obs. — Those numbers with a * attached, refer to the objects which 

 are represented larger than life, and all the figures are drawn from 

 nature, excepting No. 63, which is copied from M. Guerin's plate. 



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Hayes, near Uxbridge, February, 1849. 



