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TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSECTS. 
are called “ fly blows,” increase in size with very great rapidity 
if they have sufficient food ; and there is some truth in the 
THE METAMORPHOSES OF THE MEAT FLIES. 
(Calliphora vomitoria and Sarcop/iaga carnaria.) 
saying that a pair of maggots will eat up a carcase as soon as 
a lion, for the reproductive powers of the female are enormous. 
The Bot Flies are very extraordinary creatures. They are 
large velvety flies, which have very spiall antennae and a rudi- 
