NUMBERED LIST OF FAMILIES in 



Nos. Refs. FAMILIES Notes 



XXX ... 62. CESTRID/E : a few very distinct species; proboscis and 

 mouth parts atrophied ; very hairy except one very rare ; 

 parasites of mammalia. 



XXXI ... 72. TACHINID^E: 100 genera, more than 250 native species; 

 with great difficulty classed in divisions, which may rank as 

 separate families ; stoutness of body and abundance of strong 

 hairs, or rather bristles, are so generally apparent that many 

 species may be guessed to belong to this family rather than 

 to the closely related Muscidse. Many of the larvae are 

 parasitic on various insects. 



XXXII ... 73. MUSCIDSE : 15 genera, comprising 36 native species, 

 mostly very common, and many superabundant throughout 

 summer by reason of rapid breeding. 



XXXIII ... 74. ANTHOMYHXE: 4 sub-families (MYD^IN^:, ANTHO- 

 MYIN.E, HOMALOMYIN.E, CCENOSIN^E), 36 genera, and nearly 

 300 native species ; difficult to characterise, but many rather 

 resemble the lesser house-fly in size, and more or less in 

 appearance, habit, and life-history, but some seem attracted 

 rather more to flowers and others drawn only towards dung. 



XXXIV ... 82. CORDYLURID^E : 29 genera; absence of squamae 

 apparent ; otherwise generic features and general sizes and 

 bodily shapes of species vary considerably. The yellow cow- 

 dung fly, Scatophaga stercoraria, is the commonest species of 

 this large family. 



XXXV ... 89, 1 1 6. PHYCODROMHXE : sea-shore flies. 



XXXVI ... 80. HELOMYZID^E : 8 genera; the costa of wings very 

 "pectinate "; wings large and abdomen small. 



XXXVII ... 78. HETERONEURHXE : 3 native species; smallish 

 elongated wings ; the larvae, which live in rotten wood, can 

 jump, somewhat like the cheese-hopper maggots. 



XXXVIII ... 86, 95. SCIOMYZIOE: II genera; slender flies with 

 tinted brownish wings; larvae aquatic. 



XXXIX ... 101, 135. PSILID^:: 4 genera. 



XL ... 103, 109. MICROPEZID^E: 6 native species. 



XLI ... 87, 104. ORTALID^:: about 20 species; smallish flies; some 



common in pastures; legs short and stout. 

 XLII ... 97. TRIPETID^E: numerous small species; larvae in stems 



of plants, or galls thereon, some leaf-miners. 

 XLIII ... 92. LONCFLEJD^E: some are of a plump figure and a dark 



metallic blue or green, others more slender and yellow, grey, 



or black. 



XLIV ... 93. SAPROMYZID^E : 21 species. 

 XLV ... 139. OFOMYZID.E: 5 species; life-history unknown. 

 XLVI ... 83, 102, 121, 136. SEPSIOE: several are common small 



dung-flies, with black bodies, somewhat ant-like. 



