Crane-fly (Daddy-Long-Legs) 
" Leather- Jacket ” 
THE DADDY-LONG-LEGS 
The Daddy-Long-Legs, or Crane Fly 
“ (Tipula Oleracea,”), has at least suffi- 
ciently interested the inhabitants of this 
country, as to gain for itself a kind of pet 
nickname. To many it comes under the 
class of “ horrid,” as an accommodating, 
elastic kind of term applied to all insect life, 
while many others simply regard it as a 
curious, harmless, useless kind of being, 
and think no more about it. It is not 
peculiar to Great Britain nor confined 
to a single species. In some kinds 
there are varied characteristics observ- 
able. The legs of the male are longer 
sometimes than those of the female. In 
certain cases the antennae of the males are 
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