PTYCHOPTERA. q.
P.
ru/icijicia. a
in.
^%
black
l)rown spot near shouitler,
body with reddish bands and tliree i)rown bands.
reddish
feet
wing
witii
BITTACOMORPHA. lo.
/>.
clavipes.
-^-^
In.
stripe in middle,
Family the
6.
front of head white chest blacl< and sides white; wing transparent.
RHYPHID/C. Strap Midges.
wiiite
itii
Like Tipulida, without
V-shaped seam on chest-part.
DILOPHUS, Ray Midge. 1.
2.
Z>.
thoracicus.
D. orbatus.
'^
y^
in.
in.
horny
yellow; body and legs black
shiny black with green
RHYPHUS. 1,.
4. T.
/?.
alternatus.
J2 in.
R. marginatus. R. scalaris. ^4^
Family Howing
7.
wing smoky.
tliree stripes,
Strap Midge.
with three brown and three white spots. brown with whitish edges.
gray, with three redtlish stripes; body
honev vellow
BLEPHAROCERID/E.
bands and tail-end black. .et-iciiiged .Midges.
Like mosquitoes, their
larva?
live in
swift-
streams and are there easily seen, as they are a conspicuous black.
Family
8.
nVCETOPHILID/E.
and some upon ripe
much
in.
brown
^r in.
smoky wings.
variation.
fruit.
They
They appear
Fungus Gnats
live often in great
Tiieir larva' feed on fungi, decaying vegetable matter,
numbers together.
In the venation of
like short-legged, strongly-built mosquitoes.
(20)
the
wing there
is
often
(20)
