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numerous small white maggots, pointed at one end and blunt at the 
opposite end ; and, also many pupae of these maggots, the hard, outer 
cases of these pupae being 0.15 long, and of a pale, dull yellowish 
color, one or both ends being darker, and of a brown or reddish brown 
hue, their head end being abruptly tapered and prolonged into a short 
projecting point, with its end cut off transversely, and their opposite 
end bluntly and unevenly rounded, and usually showing two small 
projecting points, frequently with two large blackish dots above 
them. 
From some of these pupae I obtained a small yellow fly, which I 
have frequently noticed alighted in the garden. It is closely related 
to the Chlorops lineata, Fab., and 0. tamiopus, Meig., having the 
antennae inserted upon a slight prominence ot the forehead, three 
broad black stripes upon the thorax, and the lore feet black. I 
name this fly the Garden Chlorops, and a short description v ill 
suffice to characterize it and show that it is different from the species 
above named. 
The Garden Chlorops, U. hortensia, is 0.10 in length, and, to the end of its closed 
wings, 0.15. It is glabrous and of a pale bright yellow color. On the thorax are 
three black stripes, which are slightly broader toward their anterior ends. 1 he mid¬ 
dle stripe is continued forward upon the head to the frontal prominence, narrow iug 
to a point at its anterior end, and it extends backward only to the suture at the base 
of the scutel. On each side of the breast is a black dot, and forward of it a short 
black line, which narrows to a very acute point at its anterior end. The abdomen 
is black, with a narrow yellow border at its tip; it is flattened and broad egg-shaped, 
its length and width closely like that of the thorax. The face is white, and the last 
joint of the antenna; black. The fore feet are black their entire length. 
"Wood Tick, Ixodes Americanus, Linn. (Aptera. Acaridae.) 
Common in the forests in unsettled sections of the country, and fastening itself 
upon man and animals ; a flattened, obovate, chestnut red tick, having a white spot 
on the end of its scutel, and a whitish ring on its knees. 
The most common tick of our country, called the wood tick from 
its inhabiting the woodlands, and not occurring in cleared and culti¬ 
vated grounds, though formerly abundant throughout the northern 
' and middle States, has now become nearly or quite extinct. The 
Swedish naturalist Kalm, in passing through the east part of our 
State one hundred and twenty years ago, when crossing from the 
Hudson river to Lake Champlain, speaks ol the discomfort he 
experienced from the wood ticks with which the forests there 
abounded. At this day, along the route he pursued, not one of these 
insects can probably be found. Residing in that vicinity, I have 
never met with this wood tick except in a single instance, hortv 
