I.
NEMATOCERA.
Sub-Order
Feeler, except the frst tco Joints, com posed of
This comprises the mosquitoes, gnats ;md midgets,
Generally
long legs and small heads and eyes.
—
all
more or
delicate
of"
many
similar joints.
less mosciuitci-like. witii slciult-r bodies,
huild. thnu<;h tjradually apjiKiaching the next
division.
II.
BRACHYCERA.
Sub-Order
This comprises the various
bumblebees
III.
birth
ti)
of"
the
splits into
Parasites on animals,
-cl/ic/i
head and eyes large.
they seldom leave.
ileveloping t"rom the egg to the maggot, pupa and My, like
pupa,
f"rom which the insect
OBSERVE THE WING. from one vein
flies, all
sliort.
generally of robust build, strong bodies, stout legs
Sub-Order PUPIPARA. Instead
of few and nneqnal joints sometimes a bristle at theend. more or less like the house fly, though some resemble wasps, bees or
Feeler
to another,
The
is
all
the t"oregoing,
the
female gives
transformed.
veins running t"rom the shoulder to the edge are called length-veins
cross-veins
two or more branches; then
the edge of the wing, nor those t'rom the
a It
space encloseil is
first
called forked.
bv veins
Do
cross-vein to the shoulder
(4)
is
called a cell
not CDUnt the cells
.
On some wings
those
a
vein
which border one side on
onlv those in the mitkile of wing.
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