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 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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