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become abundant, they may be very destructive. The following 
are the more important papers dealing with the injurious 
species: 
rgo28 Webster, By Mi. Craneflies: eather Jackets, ©. Agr. Exp. “Sta: 
Bul. 46, p. 238-47. (Fig. of egg, larva and pupa and adult Tipula 
DCO usmand= oneadttit = bra cyan tnde Sp.) 
1893 ———_————. Methods of Oviposition in Tipulidae. O. Agr. 
lds. Sia, Weeds Ser, msisiea, pil, i, ine, a7, Dk Aye 
1896 Hopkins, A. D. & Rumsey, W. E. The Meadow Maggots. W. Va. 
Agr. Exp. Sta. Bul. 44, p. 258 
1898 Bruner, L. Craneflies Attacking Clover. Neb. State Bd Agr. 
Rep’t of Entomol. p. 256-57. (Discusses habits and remedies) 
1899 Ewert Paper in Zeitschr. f. Pflanzenkrank. 9:328-2329. (Reviewed 
Kk JES, Sue, INecOeal: wir swe(e))) 
rool Fuchs, F. Ueber einige neue Forstschadliche Tipulidenarten. 
(Summary in Centralbl. Bakter. Abt. IT. 6:573) 
It appears from the foregoing American papers that the in- 
jury from crane fly larvae in meadows is easiest controlled by 
rotation of crops. | 
Figure 6 is the larvae of a mud inhabiting species; those 
that dwell in moist soil are, as a rule, similar in form, with 
less of color pattern and with much shorter appendages about 
Fig. 8 Crane fly larvae: alarva of Pedicia albiv itta; b head from below; ¢ caudal end 
from above of the same; d ventral viewof end of abdomen of larva of Epiphragma 
fascipennis, showing protruded rectal gills; e larva of Rap hidolabis tenuipes 
Bicmen@daOmmiic Ody bie piupac [lea w| are. to1rmed im) the 
end of the larval burrow, the head end usually projecting up-. 
ward near the surface of the soil. On plates 31 and 32 are shown 
the stages of development in a species that. lives under the 
wet bark of trees and rotting logs [repeated from N. Y. State 
