150 LETTERS TO MR. GRIMSHAW [CHAP. xvi. 



the Throat Deer botfly, C. rufibarbis, which I alluded to in 

 my nineteenth Report. It is a very handsome fly, more 

 than half an inch long, and of very broad make (three-eighths 

 across the abdomen), thickly clothed with very dark hair 

 (but much either mixed with or tipped with orange), 

 and on each side of the thorax a good-sized pale patch, 

 and beneath the chin the red beard from which it takes 

 its name. I scarcely think it would occur in the New Forest, 

 but, if it did, it would be quite a rare prize.] x 



Have you (if I may venture to ask) extended your 

 researches to the Hypoderma (Warble fly), of our British 

 deer ? It would be usefully interesting, I think, if we could 

 work this up. I am doing what I can, with help from some 

 of the head-keepers, &c., and when deer-stalking is going on 

 I am promised a warbled red-deer's hide for examination. 



Rather larger than life ; line showing natural length. 



FIG. 32. RED-BEARDED BOTFLY, CEPHENOMYIA RUFIBARBIS, 

 MEIG., BRAUER, AND SCHINER. 



August 17, 1895. 



I had much pleasure in receiving your letter this morning, 

 and only wish I had a duplicate of the Hypoderma bovis (Ox 

 warble fly, fig. 5), to spare I would most gladly offer it, 

 but now I have only one. I never had many, and with my 

 best endeavours I cannot get people to rear them. I quite 

 hope to have a hide of a red-deer presently, and I think one 

 might make out the larva of the H. diana (Deer warble fly), at 

 least, by reference to fig. 6, tab. viii. what do you think ? 



May I ask you to do me the pleasure of accepting the 

 enclosed copy of the " CEstridae," lately come rather 

 curiously to my hands. It was sent through a mistake 

 instead of the separate impression of Dr. Brauer's 

 " Tabanidae," and as I knew how difficult it was to procure 

 (especially with the plates), I kept it, feeling sure it would be 

 useful to some friend. I have a copy which I have worked 



1 Extracted from a letter of Miss Ormerod to Mr. D. D. Gibb. (See 

 Chap. XV.) 



