III. SUB -ORDER PUPIPARA. 



LOUSE FLIES AND TICKS. 



Family 31. HIPPOBOSCID/C. Louse Flies d/id Ticks. This and tlie next two families difler from all 

 flies mentioned before bv having no larva state. The female instead of laying eggs, gives birth to the pnpa from 

 which the insect emerges. 



HIPPOBOSCA. Louse Fly. Forest Fly. 



jri/// five z'cins in their -viilg^. 



I. //. equina. '_( in.; bright rust vellow : chest cliestinit ; feet black. Nestles in the hair of 



the horse. 'v./\&^'~' 



1. //. biibonis. i"i in. ; horn color with reddish tinge and black hairs; feet and tail-end black. 

 Lives on the owl. 



LIPOPTENA. Deer Tick. 2 



Lives in his wingless state on the deer, antl with developed wings on the partridge. With three length-veins 

 in tiie wing. Z. cervi on the deer; Ori//t//o/iiv/n pallida on the parti'idge. 



ORNITHOMYIA. Bird Louse Fly. 



I. <K iiebitlosa. y^i I'''- • >ellow head; chest reddish brown with vellow spot on shoulder, and three stripes ; 



hodv pale brown with black hair. 

 z. O. pallida. 4 in.; chest pale \ellow : boilv p:de brown ; legs white ori partridge. 



3. O. coiiplucus. '3 in. ; reddish brown, 



4. O. fuscivci/tris. f^/\n. \ chest honey yellow ; body brown ; legs green. 



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