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absolute certainty, but I suppose I must not forestall the 

 " Veterinary Record/' as it sent me the flies. 



July ii or 12, 1895. 



I am very much obliged for your further consignment 

 of the Tabanidce (Horse gadflies), and especially for the 

 liberal supply of the Great gadfly (fig. 19). What a very 

 grand fellow he is, and how very painful the attack must 

 be. I have to-day written to Mr. R. H. Meade about this 

 great variety of Gadflies which you are letting me have, 

 and offering to send him duplicates. 



Red maggot attack on a stem of barley ; and a saddle, magnified. 



FIG. 21. SADDLE FLY, ? CECIDOMYIA (DIPLOSIS) EQUESTRIS. 



Many thanks also for first, and as yet only, note of 

 presence of Hessian fly this season. About these curious 

 markings on the side of the straw are they not very like 

 those of the maggots, "red maggots," of the Diplosis equestris, 

 the Cecidomyia or Great midge, mentioned in my thirteenth 

 Report, at p. 30 ? I think you have this report, and if you 

 chanced to have leisure to compare some specimens with 



