. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 482 DIPTERA CHAr. Willistou states that 1400 or 1500 species are named, is well known to travellers on account of the blood - sucking habits of its members; they have great powers of flight, and alight on man and animals, and draw blood by making an incision with the proboscis; only the females do this, the males wanting a pair of the lancets that enable the other sex to inflict their for- midable wounds. They are comparatively large Insects, some of our English species of Tabamu attaining an inch in length. The smaller, grej Haematopota, is known to e
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. 482 DIPTERA CHAr. Willistou states that 1400 or 1500 species are named, is well known to travellers on account of the blood - sucking habits of its members; they have great powers of flight, and alight on man and animals, and draw blood by making an incision with the proboscis; only the females do this, the males wanting a pair of the lancets that enable the other sex to inflict their for- midable wounds. They are comparatively large Insects, some of our English species of Tabamu attaining an inch in length. The smaller, grej Haematopota, is known to every one who has walked in woods or meadows in the summer, as it alights quietly on the hands or neck and bites one without his having previously been made aware of its presence. The larger Tabani hum so much that one always knows when an individual is near. The species of Chrysops, in habits similar to Haematopota, are remarkable for their beautifully coloured golden-green eyes. In Brazil the ilotuca fly, Hadncs lepidotus, Perty, makes so large and deep a cut that con- siderable bleeding may follow, and as it some- times settles in numbers on the body, it is . deservedly feared. The most remarkable forms lowjirostris. x of Tabanidae are the species of the widely dis- 1^ Nepal. (After tributed genus Pangonia (Fig. 229). The pro- Hardwicke.) .,„ p f boscis m the females of some of the species is three or four times the length of the body, and as it is stiff and needle-like the creature can use it while hovering on the wing, and will pierce the body even through clothing of considerable thickness. The males suck the juices of flowers. The Seroot fly, that renders some of the districts of ISTubia uninhabitable for about three months of the year, appears, from the figure and description given by Sir Samuel Eaker, to be a Pangojiia. Tabanidae are a favourite food of the fossorial wasps of the family Bembecidae. These wasps are apparently aware of the lilood-sucking habits o
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