The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . The distinguishingflag of a shipping or other business house orfirm; the flag of the house to which a ship be-longs. [I] turned my eyes aloft where the ho-u^c-fiag, dwarfed byheight, was rattling like a peal of musketry at the main-royal-masthead. W. C. liussell. Jacks Courtship, xx. house-fly (housfli), n. [= D. huisvUeg = = Sw. husfluga.] The common fly,Musca (lomesticri. It is a dipterous or two-winged in-sect, of the family Mxtscidce and the orde
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . The distinguishingflag of a shipping or other business house orfirm; the flag of the house to which a ship be-longs. [I] turned my eyes aloft where the ho-u^c-fiag, dwarfed byheight, was rattling like a peal of musketry at the main-royal-masthead. W. C. liussell. Jacks Courtship, xx. house-fly (housfli), n. [= D. huisvUeg = = Sw. husfluga.] The common fly,Musca (lomesticri. It is a dipterous or two-winged in-sect, of the family Mxtscidce and the order Diptera, of thesuborder Eiaefiyrera (having short feelers or antennffi),and of the subdivision Diehoitce- (having the sucker or pro-boscis composed of only two pieces). It is a good repre-sentative of the large family Muscidce, and indeed of thewhole order Diptera. It is found in nearly all parts of theworld. It lays its eggs in bunches or clusters in almostany kind of decaying animal or vegetable matter, as car-rion, manure, and other filth, and the maggots hatch in aday or less, according to the degree of heat (of decompo-. House-fly {ATusca domestical. a, larva or maggot; *. puparium : e, adult fly (cross shows natural size); 3, mouth-parts; e, fool. (All magnified.) sition) to which they are subjected. The larva* are small,headless, legless maggots, which attain their full size inabout two weeks, and then crawl into some dry place topupiite. This process occupies a week or two, and on itscompletion the pei-fect tly emerges from the pupa. Thehouse-fly is furnished with a suctorial proboscis, fromwhich, when feeding on any di-y substance, it exudes aliquid; this, by moistening the food, fits it to be feet are beset with hairs, each terminating in a diskwhich is supposed to act as a sucker, enabling it to walkon smooth surfaces, even with its back down, as on a ceil-ing. These disks ai-e supposed to exude a liquid, makingthe adhesion more perfect. See also cut of
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