. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. dipTera. 479 disease known as ** ; When full-grown they pass out through the nostrils and undergo their transformations beneath the surface of the ground. Other species infest rabbits, squirrels, deer, and reindeer. One that lives beneath the skin of the neck of rabbits is very common in the South. Family (Mus'ci-dae). T/ie Muscids {Mies'cids). The form of the more typical members of this family is well shown by the common House-fly. But the family is a very large one and includes species that differ greatly in form. These di
. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. dipTera. 479 disease known as ** ; When full-grown they pass out through the nostrils and undergo their transformations beneath the surface of the ground. Other species infest rabbits, squirrels, deer, and reindeer. One that lives beneath the skin of the neck of rabbits is very common in the South. Family (Mus'ci-dae). T/ie Muscids {Mies'cids). The form of the more typical members of this family is well shown by the common House-fly. But the family is a very large one and includes species that differ greatly in form. These differences are so great and so varied that some writers divide the family into nearly thirty families. It seems to us, however, to be better to consider these divisions of subfamily value. The following characters are presented by the family as a whole. The antennae (Fig. 586) are three-jointed ; the third seg- ment bears a dorsal bristle. The frontal suture is present (Fig. 587). The proboscis is always present. Vein II of the wings may be present or absent; vein III is three- branched ; cells V, and V3 are wanting ; the branches of vein VII coalesce with the adjacent veins (VII, with V3, and VII, with IX) for nearly their entire length. The pulvilli are present, and the empodia are never pulvilliform. As this family includes more than one third of all the known Diptera, it usually happens that a large proportion of the flies in a collection belong to it. It seems necessary, therefore, to indicate some of the principal divisions of the. 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 Comstock, John Henry, 1849-1931; Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. joint author. Ithaca, N. Y. , Comstock Pub. Co.
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