Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 714
about as C in Fig. 2when seen from top, and D when seen from below. Whatseems to be the head is directly under the horns. April 29. Apparently no change in queer bug. May 7. The enigma has emerged from its case and ap-pears to be either a fly or a bee. Do not know whichyet, as wings are badly… … FIG. 3. THE FULL-GROWN FLY CALLED MICRODOT.(ENLARGED.) These larvae of the Microdon, a genus of the•family of Syrphus flies, live in ant-nests, and,when first found, were actually described as newgenera of the mollusks or shell-fish. They are nowrecognized, however, as the larvae of the Syrphusor…
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