II. SUB -ORDER BRACHYCERA. 



FLIES. 



Family 12. TABANID/C. I/orsc Flies. Breeze Flics a/ul Golden-eyed Forest Flics. All the fem.iles 

 are greedy bioods^iickeis ; a plague to man aiul beast. The males frequent flowers. The larva.' feed under ground 

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



PANQONIA. Beaked Horse Fly. Trunk Horse Fly. 



1. F". ///f/.sa (/ncis!/rii//s.) Syin.: back gray with yellow hair; body brown and smooth ; 



wing brownish. 



2. P. c//rvsocoii/a. J4 to ^'B '"• > brown or pale yellow, with yellow hair. 



3. P. traiiipi/7/a . ]A in.; brownish black; sides of bod\' reddish, coveietl with golden- / 



\ell.)w hair. 



4. P. rasa, fg to '2 in. ; feeler black, chest part black with short gray hair ; boily brovyn, with hair on last 



ring. 



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