Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . t spurred. The larva? livein water, earth, or decaying wood. Fig. 162represents a larva found living in abundance inthe alkaline waters of Clear Lake, Cal. Stra-tiomyia pkipes Loew, Sargus decorus Pay. Family Ccenomyidae.—Ccenomyia pallida Say. Family Xylophagidae.—Third antennal jointannulated; costal vein encompassing the wholewiug. Xylophagm rufipes Loew. The succeeding families belong to Sec-tion 2, Nematocera, in which the antennaeare long and many-jointed. Family —Three ocelli; wings
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . t spurred. The larva? livein water, earth, or decaying wood. Fig. 162represents a larva found living in abundance inthe alkaline waters of Clear Lake, Cal. Stra-tiomyia pkipes Loew, Sargus decorus Pay. Family Ccenomyidae.—Ccenomyia pallida Say. Family Xylophagidae.—Third antennal jointannulated; costal vein encompassing the wholewiug. Xylophagm rufipes Loew. The succeeding families belong to Sec-tion 2, Nematocera, in which the antennaeare long and many-jointed. Family —Three ocelli; wings witha perfect discal cell. RhypJms alte?-nalus Say. Family Di~idse.—Dixa clavata Loew. Family Tipulidae.—No ocelli; legs very crane-flies form an extensive group whoselarvae live in soil, mould, fungi, and sometimesin the water; they are represented by Trichocerareyelationis Linn., Tipiila trivittata Say, etc. Family Psychodidae.—Body with long coarsehairs; wings very short and broad. Very smallflies seen flying and leaping on windows, etc. Psychodes alternate/, FIG. 162.—Larva ofStratiomyia. ORDER DIPTERA. 135 Family Orphnephilidae.—Orphnephila testacca Ruthe. Family Chironomidae.—Body very slender; antennae plumose;larvae aquatic, slender-bodied, often blood-red. A species of Cera-topogon is the midge, the Simulium notivum of Harris. Tanypusannulatus Say, CMronomus nivoriundus Fitch. Family Culicidae.—In the mosquitoes the females have the mouthparts very long and slender, and highly developed, while the mandi-bles of the males, ending like a paddle, are not adapted for piercing;the hypopharynx is perforated at the end for the exit of thepoison, the opening connecting, according to McCloskie, with aduct leading from the poison-glands in the prothorax. The wings
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