. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world . nt of Agriculture. Chas. H. Cochrane. Cheese-fly, a small, black, dipterous insect(Piophila casei) bred in cheese, of the same fam-ily to which the house-fly, blow-fly, etc., has a very extensible ovipositor, which it cansink to a great depth in the cracks of cheese,and lay its eggs there. The maggot, wellknown as the cheese-hopper, is furnished withtwo horny claw-shaped mandibles, which it usesboth for digging into the cheese and
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world . nt of Agriculture. Chas. H. Cochrane. Cheese-fly, a small, black, dipterous insect(Piophila casei) bred in cheese, of the same fam-ily to which the house-fly, blow-fly, etc., has a very extensible ovipositor, which it cansink to a great depth in the cracks of cheese,and lay its eggs there. The maggot, wellknown as the cheese-hopper, is furnished withtwo horny claw-shaped mandibles, which it usesboth for digging into the cheese and for movingitself, having no feet. Its leaps are performedby a jerk, first bringing itself into a circularattitude, when it can project itself 20 to 30 timesits own length. Cheese-hopper. See Cheese-Fly. Cheese-rennet. See Bedstraw. Cheeta, Cheta, Cheetah, or Hunting-Leopard, a large tropical cat (Cyncelurusjubatd) forming an offshoot of the Felidce. Itslength and slenderness of limb give it a fleet-ness in running short distances, such as is prob-ably attained by no other large mammal. Itsclaws are short, blunt, and practically non- CHEIROPTERA, I]. Flf. Sler,*cr I •- Skull of do. * Black-fronted Lemur. Skull of Flying Lemur. r Aye-Aye. Skull of HoTM-sboeBat M Bat. u HedEe-hoE. Skull of do. Mole. Skull Flyinof do. CTIVORA, &c.
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