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 TACMINA.

Swift FIv.—Cuntimted.

Cassidoiny/ci. Pies on the helmet beetle. Jlvalomvia Prevs on leaf beetles. Feeds on liugs. Ocvptrra. (Iiartopliila florah's. Prevs on wasps' nests..

IDIA. .

I.

/.

z'/r///s.

'4

MUSCID/C.

in.

Mouth

Fly.

liron/e green, with Ijlack legs.



CouilHiiii Flies.

Theii-

larva-

live

decaying meat, sores, decaving vegetalile or animal

in

matter, manuic. etc.

STOMOXYS. Stinging S.

I.

/>arasi/a.

j in.

grav, blackish



or Stable Fly.

brown above: led

spots on

tlrst

rings of

body



feeler

stronglv comb-like. 2.

.y.

calcitrans.

on body

^^

in.



gray, with black stripes on chest, and a band and fonr black spots

feeler hair feathery



on one

side.

Both have long snouts.

SARCOPHAQA. The eggs meat, 1.

of this Hv batch within

female, and

it

deposits the living

voung maggots on dead animals,

etc.

.S'.

ncori;'/Ha

.S".

cariiaria

about 3a

'4

.

chequered 2.

the

Flesh Fly.



(4

.

hi.



blue grav, with black stripes on chest; bodv white, grav and lilack

legs black hi.





tail-end reddish.

like last, but tail-end lilack.

in.

(5-)

The males

of both are

much

smaller



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