II. SUB -ORDER BRACHYCERA. 



FLIES. 



Family 12. TABANID/E. Horse Flies. Breeze Flics and Golden-eyed Forest Flies. All the females 



are greedy bloodsuckers ; a plague to man and beast. The males frequent flowers. The larva 1 teed under ground 

 on roots of grasses, and transform there in Spring. These flies resemble each other in shape. 



PANQONIA. Beaked Horse Fly. Trunk Horse Fly. 



1. P. iiicisa (incisuralis.) ?K in.; back grav with yellow hair; body brown and smooth ; 



wing brownish. ... 



2. P. clirysocoma. J< to $/% in. ; brown or pale yellow, with yellow hair. 



i l . P. tranquilla. l ? in. ; brownish black ; sides of body reddish, covered with golden- 

 yellow hair. 

 4. P. rasa. 3/s to >4 in. ; feeler black, chest part black with short gray hair; body brown, with hair on last 



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