. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. BRAULIDAE STREBLIDAE NYCTERIEIIDAE 521 the bee, and appears as the perfect Insect in about twenty-one clays. ]\Iuggenbnrg suggests that Braula may be oviparous, as he has never found a larva in the abdomen. Packard says tliat on the day the larva hatches from the egg it sheds its skin and turns to an oval puparium of a dark brown colour. The Insect is fiequently though inappropriately called bee-louse ; notwithstanding its name it is not quite blind, though the eyes are very imperfect. Fam. 42. Streblidae. â Winged; possessing halteres; the head small,
. The Cambridge natural history. Zoology. BRAULIDAE STREBLIDAE NYCTERIEIIDAE 521 the bee, and appears as the perfect Insect in about twenty-one clays. ]\Iuggenbnrg suggests that Braula may be oviparous, as he has never found a larva in the abdomen. Packard says tliat on the day the larva hatches from the egg it sheds its skin and turns to an oval puparium of a dark brown colour. The Insect is fiequently though inappropriately called bee-louse ; notwithstanding its name it is not quite blind, though the eyes are very imperfect. Fam. 42. Streblidae. â Winged; possessing halteres; the head small, narrow and free. These very rare Diptera are altogether problematic. According to Kolenati the larvae live in bats' excrement and the perfect Insects on the ' If the former statement be correct the Insects can scarcely prove to be Pupipara. The wing-nervuration is, in the figures of the Russian author, quite different from that of Hippoboscidae. The Streblidae have been associated by some entomologists with N"ycteribiidae, and by Williston with Hippoboscidae. Family 43. Nycteribiidae.âThe species of this family are. PiQ 248 âNveteHhia sp., from Xantharpyia strammm. Aden. A, Upper surface of â female, with head in the position of repose ; B, under surlace of male. x \--. found on bats; they are apparently rare, and we have been able to examine only one species. The form is very peculiar, the ' Horac Soc. ent. Moss. ii. 1863, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harmer, S. F. (Sidney Frederic), Sir, 1862- ed; Shipley, A. E. (Arthur Everett), Sir, 1861-1927. ed. [London, Macmillan and Co. , Limited; New York, The Macmillan Company
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