. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. 'S ,1" ⢠1 '!*.. 7 ' - - â â .^f^ W i 'â â i â tt 11 I'll 11 li s^ THE SNIPE FLIES (Family ) These are slender, rather small flies, somewhat resembling the robber flies, on account of their long legs and slender bodies. Thev have usually smoky wings and velvety bodies, some of them slightly resembling yellow-banded wasps. They are n
. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. 'S ,1" ⢠1 '!*.. 7 ' - - â â .^f^ W i 'â â i â tt 11 I'll 11 li s^ THE SNIPE FLIES (Family ) These are slender, rather small flies, somewhat resembling the robber flies, on account of their long legs and slender bodies. Thev have usually smoky wings and velvety bodies, some of them slightly resembling yellow-banded wasps. They are not especially numerous. Some of these flies are predatory and de- stroy other insects and this may be the habit of all. They are sluggish in their habits and are easily caught. The larvK are predaceous. and variable in their habitations. Some are found in water, others live in deciying wood, or in the earth, in moss, in dry sand, or in the burrows of wood-boring beetles. There is a curious resemblance between the habits of the species of the genus X'enuileoand the well- iiown ant-lions, the larvic forming conical pitfalls in the sand in which to catch small insects. Flies of the genus .Atherix lay their eggs, as do the females of the Stratiomyiid genus Odontomyia, in masses on dried branches overhanging the water. The masses become very large and pear-shaped from the curious fact that a number of female- add their eggs to the same mass, frequently dying after egg Living and leaving their bodies attached to the egg mass. The larvx are cylindrical and sometimes bristly, and may have fleshy ap- resembling prolegs on the abdomen. has seven pairs of these prolegs. The of one species has been found by Hart in damp The ,Xylophagid;e and C(rnomyiidx which will be found mentioned in some books are merged with the Leptids. The Xylophagids are rather slender flies with the .ibdomen pointed in the female .sex. The (^lenoniyiids on the contr
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