Labrador, the country and the people . Fig. 5, Tipula tesselata. Fig. 9. Brenthus frigga APPENDIX I 433 frequently banded with brown or black. They possess great ex-tensile and retractile powers, which enable them to move quiterapidly through the mud and decaying vegetable matter. Whencaptured they are restless and active; if held carelessly in theclosed hand they use their mandibles freely, puncturing the skinand causing severe pain. The family Tipulidse, or the crane-flies, as they are popularlycalled in reference to their long, slender legs, constitute a veryconspicuous group of flies which
Labrador, the country and the people . Fig. 5, Tipula tesselata. Fig. 9. Brenthus frigga APPENDIX I 433 frequently banded with brown or black. They possess great ex-tensile and retractile powers, which enable them to move quiterapidly through the mud and decaying vegetable matter. Whencaptured they are restless and active; if held carelessly in theclosed hand they use their mandibles freely, puncturing the skinand causing severe pain. The family Tipulidse, or the crane-flies, as they are popularlycalled in reference to their long, slender legs, constitute a veryconspicuous group of flies which extends well into the Arcticregion. Six species have been recorded from Labrador, but thereare probably four or five times this number. The large tessellatedcrane-fly, Tipula tessellata (PL, Fig. 5), is over an inch in length, withspotted wings and dark body covered with a grayish pollen. Thenorthern crane-fly, Tipula septentrionalis, is a smaller species,with darker wings marked with white and black. The larvae ofthis group live either in damp, decaying vege
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