. A text-book of agricultural zoology. Zoology, Economic. DIPTEKA OK TRUE FLIES. 227 The House-flt (Musoa domestica). Although the House-fly is not an agricultural pest, yet it is sufficiently obnoxious to allow a few lines to be devoted to it. The House-fly {M. domestica) belongs to the family Muscidae, a family that contaios the Blue-bottle Flies {Gal- liphord) and Green-bottles (Lmcilia), as well as the dreaded Tsetse-fly of Africa.^ This household pest is found in all parts of the world near habitations. The adult house-fly is ashy-grey, more or less ochreous at the sides in the male, ashy
. A text-book of agricultural zoology. Zoology, Economic. DIPTEKA OK TRUE FLIES. 227 The House-flt (Musoa domestica). Although the House-fly is not an agricultural pest, yet it is sufficiently obnoxious to allow a few lines to be devoted to it. The House-fly {M. domestica) belongs to the family Muscidae, a family that contaios the Blue-bottle Flies {Gal- liphord) and Green-bottles (Lmcilia), as well as the dreaded Tsetse-fly of Africa.^ This household pest is found in all parts of the world near habitations. The adult house-fly is ashy-grey, more or less ochreous at the sides in the male, ashy-grey in the female;. Fig. 115.—Head op Stoimxeys. (Delafond.) a, Antennae; j), maxillary palp; t, prolioseis. (From Par. Dis. Ani., Fleming.) head black between the dull-reddish eyes, which are sur- rounded by a shiny white circle, and the face is the same colour; the grey thorax has four black lines upon it, and the legs are rather slender and black. The life-history of 1 The Tsetse-fly only acts as a distributer of the Tsetse disease, which is caused by a protozoon in the blood, belonging to the flagellate genus 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 Theobald, Frederick Vincent, 1868-1930. Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood and sons
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