Family
10.
SIHULIID/E.
are short,
Unlike the foregoing families, they
Dliick Flies
tribe
with the
flies.
SmULIUM. Black S. molestum.
-^^ in.
innoxiujn.
meridionale.
Family n. in veins
of wing.
the Adirondack black
yg^ in.
S. pecuaruDi. 6"
hot sunshine,
jjests
and the next connect the mosquito
5".
like
and
where they abound. Their larva; live in swift-flowing streams. Their feelers but composed of many joints their boily more robust, and legs stout, but heads small. This family
they are one ot the greatest
does not
fly,
which
is
Fly.
very bloodthirsty.
bite.
The soutiiern Buflalo-gnat. The Turkey-gnat.
BIBIONID/C. March Flies. Hair Midge. Like last family, but differs Does not liite, and its larvas live on roots and decaying vegetable matter.
£. thoracica. j^ in. black chest and shanks reddish. ^. riifithorax. y% in. black chest onlv yellowish-red. black, with yellow hair and chestnut-colored shanks. B. femorata. in. jB. xanthopus. ^ in. black, with yellow bloom black legs and yellow wings. B. hctcroptera. -^-^ in. black, with smoky wings. B. albipennis. -f-^ in. shiny black, whitish, hairv wing white with brown veins. B. articulata. ^ in. chest and legs yellow head and bodv black. B. pallipes. black white, hairy, with yellow legs and wings.
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