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ZOOLOGY. 



The most aberrant of beetles is Stylops (Figs. 338 and 339, 

 S. childreni Westwood), the male of which has minute fore 



Fig. 2Si^.— Stylops childreni, female. 

 B, paraBltic in the abdomen of a bee ; 

 hy top view of the eame. Macli en* 

 Jarged. 



Fig. 3iO.—AslTaptor itlunUnator, larva. 



Pig. 343.— The early stages of the common House-fly. A, dorsal and side Tiew of 

 th« larva j a, air-tubee ; 8p, ppiracle. C, the spiracle enlarged. F, head of the same 

 larva, enlarged ; W, labmm (?); md^ mandibles ; mx. maxlllfie ; aU antennae. E, a 

 terminal spiracle mach enlarged. J>, pupanum ; ep, epirace. All the flgnres much 

 enlarged. 



wings. The female is wingless, grub-like, imperfectly de- 

 veloped, and is viviparous, the young issuing from her body 



