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ZOO LOG Y. 



The most aberrant of beetles is Stylops (Figs. 338 and 339, 

 S. childreni AVestwood), the male of which has minute fore 



Fig. 339. Stylops childreni. female. 

 ., parasitic in the abdomen of a bee ; 

 b. top view of the same. Much en- 

 larged. 



Fig. 340. Astraptor illuminator, larva. 



Fig. 342. The early stages of the common House-fly. .4, dorsal and side Yiew of 

 the larva ; a, air-tubes : sp, spiracle. 0, the spiracle enlarged. F, head of the same 

 larva, enlarged ; bl, labrum (?); ?nd, mandililot- ; mx, maxilla; ; at, antennie. E, a 

 terminal spiracle much, enlarged. D, pupanum ; sp, epirac.e. All the figures much 

 enlarged. 



wings. The female is wingless, grub-like, imperfectly de- 

 veloped, and is viviparous, the young issuing from her body 



