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would get rid of much presence of infestation. For dressings, any of 
the many forms of soft-soap applications mixed with sulphur, or some 
insect deterrent that would not hurt the young growths (if any of it 
remained to the time of pushing of the young buds and shoots), would 
probably answer well. 
DEER. 
Red-bearded Bot Fly. Cephenomyia rufibarbis, Meig., Brauer, 
and Schiner; C. auribarbis, Macquart. 
CEPHENOMYIA RUFIBARBIS, rather larger than life; line showing natural length, 
In the year 1895 Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw, F.E.S., gave a most 
interesting description in the ‘ Annals of Scottish Natural History’ of 
the Red-bearded Bot Fly, Cephenomyia rufibarbis, a species parasitic in 
larval state in the nostrils and throat and mouth parts of the Red 
Deer, and previously unknown in Britain, of which he mentioned that 
two had been presented to him, captured in the preceding summer by 
his friend Mr. L. W. Hinxman, in Strath Carron, close to the loch of 
that name, and only a few feet above high-water mark. 
On March 4th (1896) Mr. Grimshaw exhibited specimens of this 
same species at the meeting of the Entomological Society in London, 
with the information that they were collected by Mr. L. W. Hinxman 
in Ross-shire in June and July, 1894, and in the Cairngorm Mountains 
in 1895; and on June 8th I received a fine recently captured speci- 
men of this fly amongst some other Diptera sent me by Mr. Dugald 
Campbell, from Strathconan Forest, Muir of Ord, Ross-shire. 
These successive captures are of some interest to note, as the arm 
of the sea known as ‘‘ Loch Carron’’ lies on the west of Ross-shire, 
and the Cairngorm Mountain in the county of Banff, towards the 
easterly part of Scotland, and estimating these localities roughly at 
about one hundred and sixty miles distance, this shows a much wider 
geographical area of presence of this newly-recorded Deer pest than 
