Excerpt from First Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of the State of Illinois, 1867 The second of the two Guests is a species of Midge, belonging to the genus Sciam and to the same group of Two-winged Flies as the notorious Wheat Midge, commonly known in Illinois as the Bed Weevil, (oecidomyia tritici, Kirby), and the equally notorious Hes sian Fly (ceciclomyia destructor, Say). We may call it in English the Grape Midge. It is a small, slender, long-legged, blackish Fly, measuring to the tips of its wings about one-tenth of an inch, and with no conspicuous markings whatever. The genus to which it belongs is a rather extensive one, no less than seven U. S. Species (not three as in correctly stated by Dr. Fitch, N. Y. Rep. I. P. 255) having been de scribed by a single author, T'hos. Say; and moreover the species are difficult to distinguish from one another, owing to the monotonous uniformity of their coloration.* I think that my grape-inhabiting species is probably identical with the Fickle Midge (sciara [molobras] inconstans) of Dr. Fitch, which is described by him as making its appearance at the same unseasonable time of the year - the latter part of December - and as running about in the same fickle, rapid, rest less manner as I have observed mine to do. Of this Guest - y, from the same lot of about fifty infested grapes from which I had previ ously bred the Grape Curculio and the Guest-beetle. I obtained No vember 19th - 29th, no less than thirty-five specimens; and probably. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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."