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they are recommended. I have received specimens of this 

 fly from nearly every Southern State. There are very similar 

 flies North, belonging to the same genus, but as yet we have 



Tig. 108. 



no account of their attacking bees, though such a habit might 

 easily be acquired, and attacks here would not be surprising. 



BEE-LOUSE — Branla Cceca, Nitsch. 



This louse (Fig. 109) is a wingless Dipteron, and one of 

 the uniques among insects. It is a blind, spider-like para- 

 site, and serves as a very good connecting link between insects 

 Fig. 109. 



Imago. Larva. 



and spiders, or, still better, between the Diptera, where it 

 belongs, and the Hemiptera, which contains the bugs and 



