Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . legs short; frontwith bristles near the crown. Calobata antennipennis Say. Family Psilidae. —Body slender; face receding, mouth bicolor Meig. Europe and North America. Family Sciomyzidae.—Front with two bristles, one behind theother, on the side before the vertical bristles; middle tibiae with agreater number of bristles at the tip. Sciomyza, albocostata and North America. Family Helomyzidae.—Front bristly on the upper half only; all thetibiae spurred. Ilelomyza, apicalis Loe
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . legs short; frontwith bristles near the crown. Calobata antennipennis Say. Family Psilidae. —Body slender; face receding, mouth bicolor Meig. Europe and North America. Family Sciomyzidae.—Front with two bristles, one behind theother, on the side before the vertical bristles; middle tibiae with agreater number of bristles at the tip. Sciomyza, albocostata and North America. Family Helomyzidae.—Front bristly on the upper half only; all thetibiae spurred. Ilelomyza, apicalis Loew. Family Cordyluridae.—Venation of the wings complete; both pos-terior basal cells of considerable size; auxiliary vein well separatedfrom the first longitudinal vein, which is bare. Entire side of the 130 ENTOMOLOGY. front bristly; anterior border of the mouth with strong, usually numerous vibrissae. Tibiae with spurs. Bcatophaga stercorarw Linn. Family Anthomyidae. —Thorax with a complete transverse suture. Fourth longitudinal vein straight or nearly so, hence the first pos-. FIG. 152.—Onion fly. o, larva, natural size; b, the same, enlarged. terior cell is fully open. Tegulae rather well Phorbiaceparum Meig. (Fig. 152). Homalomyi/t scalaris (Fabr., Fig. 153) isthe privy-fly; the maggots of this and //. cunicularis are sometimesdischarged from the human intestines and Muscidae.—Bristle of the antennae entirely plumose (Musca) or pectinated (Sto-moxys). Body never slender;thorax short; wings with thefirst posterior cell only slightlyopened, or else closed at theborder of the wing; tegulrelarge; legs stout. All the fore-going families, with the threefollowing, are by many au-thors placed in one greatfamily Muscidtv; but, to accordwith our present imperfectknowledge, Loew and othershave provisionally dividedthem into a great number ofsmall families. Musca domesticaLinn., the house-fly; Lutiliamacettaria Fabr. sometimeslays its eggs in wo
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