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II.

BRACHYCERA.

FLIES.

Family

12.

TABANID/C.

are greedy bioods^iickeis



plague

a

Breeze Flics a/ul Golden-eyed Forest Flics. All the fem.iles The males frequent flowers. The larva.' feed under ground .Spring. These flies resemble each other in shape.

I/orsc Flies. to

man

on roots of grasses, and trauiforui there

aiul beast.

in

PANQONIA. Beaked Horse 1.

F".

Syin.:

///f/.sa (/ncis!/rii//s.)

Fly.

Trunk Horse

Fly.

back gray with yellow hair; body brown and smooth



wing brownish. 2.

P. c//rvsocoii/a.

3.

P. traiiipi/7/a

.

J4 to ]A

^'B

in.;

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>

brown

or pale yellow, with yellow hair.

brownish black; sides of bod' reddish, coveietl with golden-

/

ell.)w hair. 4.

P. rasa,

fg to '2 in.



feeler black, chest part black

ring.

^24)

with short gray hair



boily brovyn, with hair on last