. Annual report of the Regents . 310 Forty-SIXTH Report on the State Museum have been one of these, it would account for the absence of any earlynotice 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 diew attention to it. While belonging to the same family with Musca domestica^ viz., the Muscidce, and to the ordinary observerbearing a general resemblance to it ia sizeand
. Annual report of the Regents . 310 Forty-SIXTH Report on the State Museum have been one of these, it would account for the absence of any earlynotice 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 diew attention to it. While belonging to the same family with Musca domestica^ viz., the Muscidce, and to the ordinary observerbearing a general resemblance to it ia sizeand appearance, a com23arison of the twowould show marked diiferences betweenthem. P. rudls may be recognized by itssluggish movements when on or about the^ windows, as if partiall}^ stupefied; a some-. Fig. 7. — The cluster fly, PoLLENiA i^i • xii^7 ^• RUDis. corigiaai) wiiat larger Size than Jz. doniestica; its black thorax (in fresh examples) covered with rather closely appressedtawny-colored hairs, sometimes inclining to a
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