Dipterous

Of creatures that can fly and are bloodless some are coleopterous or sheath-winged, for they have their wings in a sheath or shard, like the cockchafer and the dung-beetle; others are sheathless, and of these latter some are dipterous and some tetrapterous: tetrapterous, such as are comparatively large or have their stings in the tail, dipterous, such as are comparatively small or have their stings in front. ❋ Unknown (2002)

For the very reason of their being dipterous is that they are small and weak, and therefore require no more than two feathers to support their light weight; and the same reason which reduces their feathers to two causes their sting to be in front; for their strength is not sufficient to allow them to strike efficiently with the hinder part of the body. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Some insects are dipterous or double-winged, as the fly; others are tetrapterous or furnished with four wings, as the bee; and, by the way, no insect with only two wings has a sting in the rear. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Many species of dipterous insects - fruit fly, face fly, botfly, horn fly, and housefly, for example - are targets for neem products. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Jaw-capsule: contains the mouth structures in those dipterous larvae in which the head is differentiated. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Dipterocecidium: a gall formed by a dipterous insect. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Larvina: a maggot: a dipterous larva without distinct head or legs. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Flabellum: a fan: a leafed structure: the transparent lobe at the end of the glossa in bees: also used as = flagellum; q.v. Flabs: the lobes at the tip of the dipterous mouth: = labella; q.v. Flaccid: feeble: limber: lax. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Extended notes on various dipterous larvæ infesting man. ❋ Rennie Wilbur Doane (N/A)

Johnston's organ: a complex nervous structure in the basal joint of dipterous antennae. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Metapneustic: larva, chiefly dipterous, in which the spiracles are confined to the posterior segment. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

I wish I knew who was the author; you ought to know, as he admires you so much; he has a wonderful deal of knowledge, but his difficulties have not troubled me much as yet, except the case of the dipterous larva. ❋ James Marchant (N/A)

Eucephalous: with a well-developed head, bearing the normal appendages: applied to certain dipterous larvae. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Notice of a case in which the larvæ of a dipterous insect, supposed to be _Anthomyia canicularis_, Meig., were expelled in large quantities from the human intestines. ❋ Rennie Wilbur Doane (N/A)

Myiasis: disease or injury caused by the attack of dipterous larvae. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Many plant-galls are due, however, to the presence of grubs of tiny dipterous insects, the Cecidomyidae or Gall-midges. ❋ Unknown (1902)

As a rule Merton did not talk in this strain: the editors had cut away too many of his own nondescript dipterous contributions to their webs for him to love them; but for some mysterious reason it suited him just now to take the side of the enemy in the old quarrel of author _versus_ editor. ❋ Unknown (1881)

He then went very fully into this question, and concluded with a comical description of the magazine editor as a very unhappy spider, against whose huge geometric web there beats a continuous rain of dipterous insects of every known variety, besides innumerable nondescripts. ❋ Unknown (1881)

As she leaps off from her light bark, the cast chrysalis skin of her early life beneath the waters, and sails away in the sunlight, her velvety wings fringed with silken hairs, and her neatly bodiced trim figure (though her nose is rather salient, considering that it is half as long as her entire body), present a beauty and grace of form and movement quite unsurpassed by her dipterous allies. ❋ Unknown (1872)