28 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



in particular, as the blowflies 

 will sure be there in a short time 

 and game and fish of all kinds_ if 

 not properly protected are in- 

 fected. 



In order to show the reader the 

 inside anatomy of a blowfly variety, 



The small worms seen on the 

 photo were alive and crawling 

 but were made_ motionless, for 

 photo reproduction, with a few 

 drops of chloroform. 



The view was taken with an 

 extra-near focusing lens, showing 



Lakce Type of Female Hous: 

 (Magnified 



a photograph of two such flies are 

 appended herein, (page 29) magni- 

 fied several times. The abdomen of 

 one of these flies had been opened 

 artificially. It was not the com- 

 mon blue bottle blowfly variety, 

 but a sub-species of a larger 

 variety of^^our common housefly. 



SFLY Depositing Matured Eggs. 

 from Nature.) 



both flies magnified several times. 

 This illustration proves that some 

 species of these flies are viviparous 

 during the extreme hot weather* 

 (The photograph was taken last 

 summer, end of July, about the 

 ■ time of writing these notes.) I 

 had previously put one of these 



