Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . rm from others of thisfamily. The flies are closely allied to thosoof the preceding genus. Dr. Leidy states in the Proceedings of thePhiladelphia Actulemy (1859), that severalspecimens of the larva of a bot-fly were ob-tained by Dr. J. L. Leconte in Honduras,from his travelling companions. They were usually found be-neath the skin of the shoulders, breasts, arms, buttocks andthighs, and were suspected to have been introduced when thepersons were
Guide to the study of insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops: for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . rm from others of thisfamily. The flies are closely allied to thosoof the preceding genus. Dr. Leidy states in the Proceedings of thePhiladelphia Actulemy (1859), that severalspecimens of the larva of a bot-fly were ob-tained by Dr. J. L. Leconte in Honduras,from his travelling companions. They were usually found be-neath the skin of the shoulders, breasts, arms, buttocks andthighs, and were suspected to have been introduced when thepersons were bathing. lt Dr. Leconte informs us that his com-panions were not aware of the time when the eggs of the larva-,obtained by him, were deposited in their bodies. He also statesthat the presence of the larva gave rise to comparatively littleuneasiness. According to Krefft a species of Bcitruchomyia is parasiticupon four species of Australian frogs. The larva* are foundbetween the skin and the flesh behind the tympanum ; they areof a yellow color and may be squeezed through a small open-ing that exists over them. When they quit the frog the latter. MUSCID^K. 407 dies. The change to the pupa state is usually effected OH thelower surface of a piece of rock in some damp locality. Theperfect insect emerges in thirty-two days. (Giinthers Zoologi-cal Record, 1864.) : Latreille. The common House-fly, the Blue-bottlefly, and the Flesh-fly, at once recall the appearance of thisfamily, which is one of great extent, and much subdivided byentomologists. The antenna; are three-jointed, the terminaljoint being flattened and with a plumose bristle in the typicalspecies. The proboscis ends in a flesh} lobe, with porrectsingle-jointed maxillary palpi. The four longitudinal veins ofthe wing are simple ; the first of the two veins on the hinderedge often approaching that on the apex of the wing ; the tarsihave two pulvilli, and the abdomen is five-jointed. The larva1are footless, cylindrico-conic, na
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