GAD FLIES. 123 
TABANIDA.—Gad Flies, Horse Flies, or Breeze Flies. 
Hematopota pluvialis, Linn., Horse or Rain Breeze Fly. 
Therioplectes tropicus, Meig. (no known English name). 
7 solstitialis, Meig., Midsummer Gad Fly. 
Atylotus fulvus, Meig., Tawny Gad Fly. 
Tabanus bovinus, Linn.,* Great Ox Gad Fly. 
»,  autumnalis, Linn., Autumn Gad Fly. 
»,  bromius, Linn., ‘ Noisy” Breeze Fly. 
»  cognatus, Low, “Allied” Breeze Fly. 
Chrysops cecutiens, Linn., Blinding Breeze Fly. 
TaBanus BoyINUS, Linn., larva and pupa, life size. After De Geer. 
In the course of the attention which was directed during the past 
season to the presence of horse and cattle flies in the New Forest, some 
twelve or fourteen different kinds of what we commonly know as ‘Gad 
Flies,” ‘‘ Horse Flies,” or ‘‘ Breeze Flies,’ were sent me, with requests 
for the precise name. Some of the kinds were perfectly easily distin- 
guishable, for all practical purposes, under their common names, as, 
for instance, the Great Ox Gad Fly, or the little straight-sided grey 
“Horse Fly,” or, again, the pretty little Chrysops, with its banded 
wings; but with regard to the scientific names, all who are at all ac- 
quainted with the subject will know the impossibility of any but an 
expert giving a really trustworthy identification. 
Therefore, after identifying to the best of my power from the 
living, or still fresh specimens sent me, I submitted samples to our 
eminent authority on these subjects, Mr. R. H. Meade, of Bradford, 
* For observations on differences between Tabanus sudeticus as separated by 
Zeller from 1’. bovinus, Linn., see p. 127; but as the distinctions are quite indistin- 
guishable except by experts, and these notes are meant for agricultural service, in 
which both kinds are well known as the Great Ox Gad Fly, I have retained the 
name of Lovinus, with requisite explanation.—E. A. O, 
