36 The Hifiory of ANIMALS, 
down of fliort hairs: it’s body is fhort, rounded, and obtufe; it’s colour black but 
of a reddilh brown at the fides: the trunk or fucker is long, and it always carries it 
exerted ; the wings are part brown, and part whitilh, and a great deal of the woollv 
down upon the body is white, which, with the blacknefs below, has a very Angular 
It is common with us in gardens, where it flies about flowers, and fucks the honey 
out of them, without ever fettling upon them, always continuing on the wing. Au» 
thors calls it Mufca apiformis, and Mufca bombyliformis. 6 ' 
Culex alis aqueis maculis tribus obfcuris . 
‘The Culex , with aqueous wings marked with )t littlt 
three dujky jpots . 
This is confiderably fmaller than the common Gnat: the body Is oblong, flender' 
and of a dufky brown, approaching to black : the head is large ; the eyes are large* 
and very beautifully reticulated: the wings are long, narrow, and of a faint whitifli 
colour ; they have three dufky fpots near the outer edge. 
It is frequent in our woods and about waters; it’s wound is attended with great 
pain, and the mark remains a long time. Derham calls it, Culex minimus nigricans 
maculatus. 
The other fpecies of the Culex are, 1. The common Gnat. 2. The black Gnat, 
with a white ring, with black legs, and whitifli wings. 3. The black Gnat, with a 
brown body and white forehead. 4. The larger and thicker-bodied Gnat. *5. The 
long, variegated-bodied Gnat. 6. The long, grey, and yellowifh Gnat. Thefe are 
all the hitherto known fpecies of Gnats, but the genus is by many authors made much 
more ex ten five, by the admitting into it feveral of the tipula?, from an inattention to 
their diftinguifhing chara&ers. 
TIPULA. 
T H E head of the Tipula is furnifhed, at the mouth, with certain crooked and 
articulated tentacula. 
Tipula alis exalbidis macula nivea , et lineis fufcis . 
The Tipula, with whitijh wings variegated with a 
white fpot j a?td brown lines . 
great 
This is the largefl: and the mod beautiful of the Tipula kind: it’s body is long, 
flender, and of a greyifh brown ; the tail is bifid ; the legs are long and flender ; the 
head is large, and the eyes very beautifully reticulated : the wings are large and very 
beautiful; they are of a whitifh colour, but have a brown line running along the ex¬ 
terior fide, which fends off another fmaller line toward the other fide, and between 
tbefe there is a large fnow-white fpot. 
It is not unfrequent about Whitlefea Mere in the Ifle of Ely; elfewhere I have not 
found it. Ray calls it, Tipula maxima alis majoribus ex fufco et albo variegatis. 
Tipula cor pore nigro fulvoque variegata . 
The Tipula , with the body variegated with black and 
wijh . 
This is a very beautiful fpecies: the body is long, flender, and beautifully varie¬ 
gated with a deep glofly black, and a bright yellow: the thorax is alfo of the fame 
fine black, with a number of yellow fpots on it: the wings are large and brownifh, 
with fome dufky veins, and an obfcure lpot in each toward the edge : the legs toward 
the top are alfo yellowifh. 
We have this among the willows about Batterfea, and in fome other places; but it 
is not very common. Ray calls it, Tipula elegans dorfo et fcapulis nigris, ventre 
croceo. 3 
Tipula 
%tfe painted 
Xipuia. 
