CHAPTER XIII 



Order Diptera {concluded): The Pupipara 



(Lat. Pupa, and pario = \.o bring forth). 



The flies of this comparatively small group are so named 

 because, so far as their method of reproduction is known, 

 they give birth to a full-grown larva — one at a birth — which 

 pupates almost immediately it is extruded ; but as this 



Fio. 72 — nippolosca maculaia. 



method is now known to occur outside the group (in Glossina) 

 the name as such is not exclusively appropriate. 



The flies themselves are blood-sucking parasites which 

 live concealed among the hairs of mammals and under the 

 feathers of birds, but one minute species is a parasite of bees 



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