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WARBLE FLY. 



hideSj that of a two-yeai'-old heifer, there were 300 warble-holes; and 

 in another taken from an animal which died on consequent morti- 

 fication of the back, there the warble -holes were more than 400 in 

 number. The accompanying figure (see previous page), giving some 

 idea of this damaged hide, though necessarily in miniature, is from 

 a photograph presented tome by Messrs. R. Parsons and Son, tanners, 

 East Street, Taunton, of a piece of a yearling skin, 24 by 14 inches, 

 containing 402 warble-holes. 



Loss on the hides is a very serious matter, and special estimates 

 and calculations are given on this head by themselves further on ; but 

 in the above observations the condition of the hide has chiefly been 

 alluded to in connection with the illness or death of the attacked 

 animal, of which the infested hide showed the cause, sometimes little 

 suspected until attention chanced almost accidentally to be directed to 



Fig. 15. — Piece of under side of warbled hide ; warbles about half-size. 

 From a photo by Messrs. Byrne, Kichmond, Surrey. 



it, as in the observation of the late Mr. Magniac, of Colworth. But 

 bad as this loss on hides is, — and to be counted by hundreds and even 

 thousands of pounds per annum to individual firms, — this is only a 



