. Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York . 310 Forty-sixth Report on the State Museum have been one of these, it would account for the absence of any early-notice of its peculiar habits in hibernation that would naturally haveattracted observation to it. What the Fly fly has been sent to me on several occasions during late years,with inquiry if it was the common house-fly, and telling of its abund-ance or strange conduct that drew attention to it. While belonging to the same family with Musca domestica, viz., the Miiscidd, and to the ordinary observerbearing
. Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York . 310 Forty-sixth Report on the State Museum have been one of these, it would account for the absence of any early-notice of its peculiar habits in hibernation that would naturally haveattracted observation to it. What the Fly fly has been sent to me on several occasions during late years,with inquiry if it was the common house-fly, and telling of its abund-ance or strange conduct that drew attention to it. While belonging to the same family with Musca domestica, viz., the Miiscidd, and to the ordinary observerbearing a general resemblance to it in sizeand appearance, a comparison of the twowould show marked difi^erences betweenthem. P. rudis may be recognized by itssluggish movements when on or about the^ * windows, as if })artialty stupefied; a some- FiG. 7.—The cluster tiy, Pollenia • -i -nr j u- -j. RUDIS. (Original) what larger size than J/, domestica; its black thorax (in fresh examples) covered with rather closely ajjpressedtawny-colored hairs, sometimes inclining
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