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LEPTOGASTER. Slim I.

L.

liistrio.

chest reddish l)iou'n, with three lihick stripes; body brown, with -white bands and

y% in.;

yellow legs

hind legs with brown bands.

HYBOS. I.

H.

%

thoracicus.

Family insects.

18.

in.

Hunchback

EMPID/E.

Their grubs

R.

cilipcs.

2.

Ji.

amcricana.

3.

R. scolopacea.

live

Dance Flies. They dance and hunt on decaying vegetable matter.

}{ in.

^

^-^ in.

//. superstitiosa.

T. fenestrata.

sha<ly brooks,

slate gray, with yellow legs.

blackish gray

ys in.

]•?,

swarms on

Bill Fly.

chest faintly striped

in.

body

silvery

legs

Catch Fly.

whitish, with liroad black stripe on chest and body.

TACHYDROMIA. Race I.

in

spot.

gray, with four stripes on chest and white hairy hind shanks. in.

HEMERODROMIA. I.

Fly.

brown, with yellow shanks; wing smoky, with brown edge

RHAMPHOMYIA. 1.

Fly.

Fly.

black, with yellow legs and black stripe on shanks.

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brown.

and feed on

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