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 '''Family 28. DOLICHOPODIDÆ' Long-legged Flies.'' Mostly bright metallic green; found in swamps on water plants. They prey on other insects; their larva live in decaying vegetable matter.

1. D. cuprinus. ¼ in chest bronze green, with coppery stripes: legs yellow; feet black.

2. D. brezipennis. ¼ in.: metallic green; legs vellow: feeler, half of hind shanks and feet black.

3. D. gratus. ¼ in.: blue green: feet black; shins and face yellow.

4. D. laticornis. $3⁄16$ in.: green: feet black; shins yellow: face white.

5. D. setifer. $3⁄16$ in.: dark green: feet black shins yellow: face white; hind

6. D. pachycnemus. ¼ in.: green; feet yellow: hind feet black.

7. D. splendidus. ¼ in.: green with red reflex; fore legs yellow: hind feet black.

8. D. endactylus. ¼ in.: green; fore legs yellow: hind feet black and yellow.

9. D. variabilis. $3⁄16$ in.: green: face white: feeler red: feet yellow.

10. D. longipenuis. ¼ in.: green: middle and side stripes of chest brassy yellow, feeler red; feet yellow: face yellowish white.

11. D. fulvipes. ¼ in.: green; face golden: feeler, fore legs, and hind feet dark yellow.

12. D. scoparius. ¼ in.: green: face white; feeler black: feet yellow.

13. D. discifer. ¼ in.: like last; but tip of fore feet black.

14. D. Setosus. ¼ in. : like last; feet black and studded with long bristles.

15. Grymnopternus barbatulus. ⅛ in.: dark green; feet black: face bearded.