130 HORSE AND CATTLE FLIES. — 
in the mornings and evenings in sunshine, over the roads.’”’—(See 
Dr. Taschenbere’s ‘ Fauna Austriaca: die Fliegen,’ previously quoted, 
vol. ii. p. 29.) 
Two other very troublesome kinds remain to be noticed amongst 
those sent me from the New Forest, of distinct genera from the above. 
One of these is the Hamatopota pluvialis, Panz., known sometimes as 
the Small Rain Breeze Fly, or Horse Breeze Fly. 
This is a little somewhat straight-sided fly, not 
quite half an inch in length; the males blackish- 
erey; the females whitish-grey; and both sexes 
much covered with white hair. The eyes, when 
living, green above, purple below, with bluish 
stripes, or one-coloured, with stripes. The wings 
iy grey, and covered with pale markings, in the shape 
Small Rain Breeze of very short narrow stripes, forming straight or 
a aa (after eyrved lines, or even parts of broken circles in all 
directions; when at rest, the wings are placed like 
a roof over the abdomen. Of this species Dr. Taschenberg says :—‘ An 
extraordinarily troublesome Breeze Fly.’’ Schiner notes the flies as 
numerous by roads and paths, and on hot days attacking the draught 
animals, especially horses. Also as being always at hand near water 
in the height of summer, and annoying bathers; and so persevering 
in their attacks that they can be seized by the fingers, without their 
flying away. 
The early stages appear to be still unknown. 
Genus Chrysops: C. cecutiens, Linn., ‘‘Small Blinding Breeze 
Fly.”—Has distinct ocelli—that is, little speck-like eyes on the top of 
Small Blinding Breeze Fly, magnified (after Railliet). 
the head—three in number; and the antenne (horns) longer than the 
breadth of the head, without crescent-shaped side notch. Wings, when 
at rest, expanded to about half open (see figure). Length from a 
third to two-fifths of an inch. General colour black in the male, but 
browner in the female, with a yellow band across the upper side of the 
base of the abdomen, bearing in the middle a dark marking somewhat 
of the shape of a capital X, with the centre of the upper part (that is, 
the part nearest the fore body) entirely dark; sometimes (vide Schiner’s 
