A magnified representation of the House Fly, Musca domestica, crawling up 

 a volume in the natural history library. To the left is a highly magnified 

 figure of the foot, and in the centre are the larva and pupa of another species 

 much resembling it, abundant in its imperfect stages between the membranes of 

 dock leaves. 



FLIES IN WINTER, AND A FLY LEAF. 



HE Flies are gone, but where are they gone 

 to? that is the question. At the close of 

 summer, when they are busy and buzzing 

 around us in the shape of a visitation, it is 

 certainly no easy matter to let them " pass by 

 us as the idle wind;" but in one respect they are, to most 

 people, like the wind too, since they scarce know whence they 

 come or whither they go. Doubt the first, as to whence they 

 come, is not difficult to solve, though perhaps with the most 



