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Rob. Desv., Musca Caesar, Linn. The hominivorous fly, L. 

 homtnivora, inhabits Cayenne. The larvae of the Musca 

 meteorica, Fair., is sometimes developed in the stomach 

 of man. The blue-?" ottle and some other flies give birth 

 to larvie already hatched: the blue-bottle to 200,000, 

 which in 24 hours will increase two hundred times in 

 weight, and eat up refuse animal matters. Linnaeus said 

 that three individuals of M. vomitorit. will devour a dead 

 horse as quickly as a lion could do it. M. T. ; Phipson. 

 See Muscidae. 



Fluke. See Distoma. 



Flying Fox is the name given by Europeans in India 

 to frugivorous bats of the family Pteropodidae, genera 

 Pteropus and Cynopterus. They roost during the day 

 on trees, generally in large colonies, to the number of 

 many hundreds, often, occupying a single tree. Towards 

 sunset they fly off, sometimes to great distances, to trees 

 that are in fruit, for the garden fruits, and those of the 

 nim, ber, and fig trees, returning at early dawn from their 

 1 Hinting - grounds to their roosting tree, where they 

 wrangle to get the best places, striking with their wing 

 claw, screaming and cackling, and circling round the tree 

 till they can hook on. They hang with their heads 

 down. The Galeopithecus volaus, or flying lemur, and 

 the flying squirrels, species of Pteromys, are similarly 

 raiders on fruit gardens. J. 



Frog. See Eeptile. 



Fungi of various genera are cause of detriment to 

 valuable vegetable products, and animals even do not 

 escape. Among the more hurtful in India are species 

 of Capundium, Chaetomium, Clasterisporum, Diplodia, 

 Dothidea, Eurotium, Glenospora, Hemileia vastatrix, 

 Hendersonia, Hydnum, Isaria, Lentinus, Pellicularia, 



