[W]e have still more striking instances in the large clouded-wing crane fly (Tipula gigantea, Meigen), popularly termed father longlegs, or jenny-spinner, their stilted legs enabling these insects to overtop the grass as they walk in the meadows, in the same way as our imaginary giraffe would overtop the trees in a forest.

The shagreen of the abdominal tergites generally consists of small spinules, singly or in caudally convex arcs.

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They turned and found the wicker-worker hard at their heels, followed by long trails of withy.