Excerpt from The Smoky Crane-FlyGray, thoracic stripes brownish gray, darkly margined, median stripe imper fectly divided, abdomen darkly testaceous, median line clouded, posterior margin of each segment, all of the last segments, and the base of the ovipositor brownish gray, opaque, wings uniformly faintly clouded, the apex of the same color, costal cell and stigma clouded. Length of body 7% lines, length of wings from 7 A to 72 lines. Head gray, rostrum reddish brown, becoming gray above, palpi dark yellow, apex nearly black. First antennal segment reddish brown, grayish, second segment red, ¿agellum black, basal segment red. Dorsum of thorax gray, stripes brownish gray and more darkly margined, median stripe imperfectly divided. Pleura whitish gray. Abdomen dark testaceous, posterior margin of each segment, all of last segments, lateral margin, and base of ovi positor grayish brown, opaque, narrow median stripe fuscus. Lamellae Of the ovipositor rufotestaceous, the upper ones pointed and Slightly curved inward. Wings faintly clouded, apex of the same color, first basal cell and stigma brown.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.