Fly chart, the Wingate, 88 Fly-traps, 66 Forest (or spider) fly, 22 Fungus-flies, 51 Futurist's Credo, 39 Gad-flies, 23 Garden pests, vegetarian, 17 Gargantuan jokes, 32 _Gastrophilus_, _see Œstrus_ Gentles, apparatus for breeding, 80 Gentles, green, 82 _Glossina morsitans_, 62 Green-bottle flies, 20 Grey blow-flies, 19 _Hæmatobia stimulans_, 16 _Hæmatopota crassicornis_, 23 _Hæmatopota italica_, 23 _Hæmatopota pluvialis_, 23 Hibernation, 15, 80 HIPPOBOSCIDÆ, 22 Horse-flies, _see_ Forest-flies House-fly fungus, 56 House-fly, larva of, 35 House-fly, wing pattern of, 12 Hover-flies, 20 Human intestinal myiasis, 25, 26 Humble Creatures, 1, 34 _hydrotæa dentipes_, 17 _hydrotæa irritans_, 17 Instar, pupa, or chrysalid, 40 Larvæ, _see_ Maggots Lesser house-fly, larva of, 36 Lesser house-fly, wing pattern, 12 Louse-fly, tick, or ked, 22 _Lucilia Cæsar_, 20 _Lucilia sericata_, 20 _Lyperosia irritans_, 17 Maggots, feeding in company, 36 Maggots, insectivorous, 21 Maggots, jumping or hopping, 111, 112 Maggots, myiasic possibilities, 28, 37, 82 Maggots, parasitic on _lepidoptera_, etc., 111 Maggots, predaceous, 109 Maggots, "rat-tail," 21 Maggots, "star-tail," 109 Meal-worms, 80 _Merodon narcissi_, 21 Messengers of peril, 78 Metamorphosis, 37 MICRODON, 22 _Musca corvina_, 14, 17 _Muscina stabulans_, 18, 27 Nostril-fly of the sheep, 4, 26, 28 Ocelli, visual importance of, 45 Odour of humanity, attracted by, 33 Œstrid flies, egg-laying aggressions, 31, 69 _Œstrus hominis_, discredited, 28 _Œstrus (Gastrophilus) equi_, 27 _Œstrus (Gastrophilus) hæmorrhoidalis_, 26 _Œstrus nasalis_ 4 _Œstrus ovis_, 28 (_Œstrus ovis hypoderma_) _bovis_, _see_ worble-flies (_Œstrus ovis hypoderma_) _lineatum_, _see_ worble-flies Onion-fly, 17 Owl-midges, moth-like, 109 Pestering flies, commoner kinds of— _cyrtoneura simplex_, 17 _fannia canicularis_, 7 _fannia scalaris_, 18 _musca domestica_, 7 _musca corvina_, 17 _muscina stabulans_, 18 and other ANTHOMYIDÆ Poisons, effective insecticide, 73 _Polietes lardaria_, 18 Pond blood-worms, 108 Robber-flies, 54, 109 Root-fly, the, 17 _Sarcophaga carnaria_, 19 _Scatophaga stercoraria_, 19 Scavenging services, 78 _Scenopinus fenestralis_, 110 Sex differentiation, 45 Soldier-flies, 22, 109 Spiders, flies parasitic on, 110 Stable-fly, 12, 13, 16, 51 Stable manure, 67 _Stomoxys calcitrans_, 12, 13, 16, 51 STRATIOMYIDÆ, 22, 109 Swallow, attracted to breed, 53 Syrphidæ, 20 _Syrphus_, 21 TABANIDÆ, 10, 22, _see also_ blood-sucking flies TACHINIDÆ, 10, 19 _Therioplectes_, _see_ blood-sucking flies TIPULIDÆ, 109 Traps for flies, some ineffective, 72 Turnip-fly, a beetle, 17 Veins of wings, 11 Voltairean atheism, controversy of, 5 VOLUCELLA, 21 Warning signals, flies as, 78 Westminster Hospital and myiasis, 28 Window-fly, the, 110
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