. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. 67 allied genus Chrysops has also many species. The largest of our horse-flies is Tabanus, atratus, the Black Horse-fly. (Fig. 45.) A specimen of this now before me is one inch in length of body and two inches in expanse of wings. It is one coloured, brownish-blacky. Fig.'45. Tabanus lineola, the Lined Tabanus, is of a greyish-brown, and has a whitish line along, the abdomen. It measures about an inch in expanse of wings. Its proboscis is a. formidable arrangement of the maxillae and other mouth organs. The female horse-
. Annual report. Entomological Society of Ontario; Insect pests; Insects. 67 allied genus Chrysops has also many species. The largest of our horse-flies is Tabanus, atratus, the Black Horse-fly. (Fig. 45.) A specimen of this now before me is one inch in length of body and two inches in expanse of wings. It is one coloured, brownish-blacky. Fig.'45. Tabanus lineola, the Lined Tabanus, is of a greyish-brown, and has a whitish line along, the abdomen. It measures about an inch in expanse of wings. Its proboscis is a. formidable arrangement of the maxillae and other mouth organs. The female horse-flies, are those that are to be dreaded; the males do not bite. "Wood in his Insects at Home, page 615, speaking of Tabanus bovinis, gives us a good hint as to the way of dealing with the horse-flies generally. After telling of his sufferings from the bites of these creatures—of returning to his lodgings with the whole space behind his ears filled with clotted blood from the wounds inflicted upon him, he says:— " At length I discovered a plan which enabled me to enjoy comparative immunity from these and other insect pests. Before starting for the forest I dipped a little sponge in paraffin and rubbed it over my hands, face and neck. I also put some of the liquid into my gloves, and took a little bottle with me so that I might renew it as soon as the odour began to decrease in strength. Thus armed I went into the forest, and hearing in the distance the well-known trumpet charge of the Breeze Fly, determined to await the insect without flinching. The creature drove fiercely at my face until it was within a foot or eighteen inches from me, when it came within the vapour of the paraffin and darted off like an arrow. Two or three times it tried the assault, and as often had to check itself, until at last it flew off in disgust and did not ; Stomoxys Calcitrans. This is a small fly belonging to the family MusciDiE. It is about the size of the hcuse-fry, but
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