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INSECTS. DIPTERA. 98. Tipula. 
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Depofits it’s eggs under the Ikin, on the bellies of the .e) 
the larva, if it be difturbed, penetrates deeper, and prod' 
an ulcer which frequently becomes fatsl. ^ 
98. TIPULA. Month with a very fliort 
branaceous probolcis, the back groo'^‘^ 
and receiving a brittle; hauftel 
without a iheath: feelers incurv^^ * 
liform and longer than the head.’ anU^f 
inoftly filiform. 
Crane'fi- 
. t¥l. 
Moft of this genus have a great refemblance to the jbfl 
^ • /"in .1 T — *. 
feed on various fubftances: the Iar--jae are without 
and cylindrical with a truncate toothed head and feed 
roots of plants : pupa cylindrical, 2.horaed before and too 
behind. 
A. Wings expanded. 
* PeSitti- Antennas pectinate ; wings with a black fpot: 
rufous at the bafe, barred with yellow in the 
and tipt with black. Father Ln^o' " 
Inhabits Europe. Degeer, Inf, 6, tab. 2 ^. fg. 3* 
at 
Wings white hyaline with 3 large brown patches 
thicker margin. 
Donovan, ii. tab. 48. fig. z. Degeer. 6. tah. •• 
Inhabits moift places of Europe. Poifers tipt with yellow'* 
it" 
cornts. 
' Rivo/a, 
Zinuata, 
Wings white with a finuatc margin and brown fpo* ■ 
cinereous : legs ferruginous. 
Inhabits Germany, large. u’re**^* 
Thorax ferruginous before as far as the wings ; voings w'l’ gjid 
thicker margin widely ferruginous with 2 large white fin 
and brown Ipots at the thinner margin ; legs ferragino" 
black Joints 
*^-macula- Wings with brown veins margin and 4 fpots : ^ 
yellowifh above. 
Inhabits watery meadows of Europei 
fuh' 
*Crocaia. Wings with a brown fpot: abdomen black with 3 
