INDEX 
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Addenda, 78 
Aldersey Grammar School, yearly de¬ 
struction of warble maggots by boys 
at, 74 
Atylotus fulvus (see Tawny Breeze Fly) 
Autumnal Gad Fly, 80, 33 
Bot Fly, Horse, 14-18 
Bot Fly, Ox, 39-77 
Chrysops ccecutiens (see Small Blinding 
Breeze Fly) 
Ccenurus cerebralis (see “ Gid ”) 
Forest Fly, 18-25 
First observations of, 18; method of 
propagation of, 19; description of 
Fly, 19 ; description of foot and 
claws of, 20, 21 ; methods of life 
of, 22 ; localities now known of, 22, 
23 ; terror caused to horses by, 23 ; 
to prevent this, 23; remedial or 
preventive applications, 24, 25 
Gad Flies, Horse Flies, or Breeze Flies, 
25-36 
Description of characteristics of flies, 
25, 26; blood-suckers, and descrip¬ 
tion of mouth parts, 26; description 
of localities of maggots and food, 
26, 27 
Great Ox Gad Fly ( Tabanus bovinus = 
sudeticus), 27; description of, 28, 
33; life-history of the maggots of, 
29, 30 ; localities of, 30 
Autumnal Gad Fly, description of, 30, 
33 
Noisy Breeze Fly, description of, 31,33 
Tabanus cognatus, or glaucopis (no 
popular English name known), de¬ 
scription of, 31, 33 
Tawny Breeze Fly, description of, 31, 
33 
Horse Breeze Fly, description of, 32, 
34 ; localities frequented by, 32 
Small Blinding Breeze Fly, descrip¬ 
tion of, 32, 33, 34; habits of, 33 
Special characteristics of above, 33,34 
Special localities frequented by some 
of the above kinds, preventive appli¬ 
cations, and methods of protection 
from fly infestation, 35, 36 
Gad Fly maggots, note as to food of, 
Addenda, 78 
Gaslrophilus equi (see Horse Bot Fly) 
“ Gid,” erroneously attributed to Nostril 
Fly, 9 
Hcematopota pluvialis (see Horse Breeze 
Fiy) 
Hippobosca equina (see Forest Fly) 
Horse Bot Fly, 14-18 
Description of fly, 14 ; place and 
method of egg-laying, 15; method 
of passage of maggots to stomach, 
and fixing themselves, 15, 16 ; 
duration of life, 16; methods of 
prevention and remedy, 17, 18 
Horse Breeze Fly, or Cleg, 32 
Horse Warble Fly, 36-39 
A Hypoderma, but uncertainty as to 
precise species of, 36, 37 ; localities 
of attack, and usually small amount 
of, 37, 38 [Fly) 
Hypoderma bovis (see Ox Warble, or Bot 
Hypoderma ? equi = ? Loiseti (see Horse 
Warble Fly) 
Introductory Observations, 1-4 
Signs of held attack of various kinds 
of flies, 1; method of injury, and 
place of feeding of maggots of Bot, 
or Warble Flies, 2; of Gad Flies, 
2, 3 ; great importance of above 
distinctions being known, 3; method 
of propagation of Forest Flies, and 
Sheep Spider Flies, or Ticks, 3, 4 
Kerosine emulsion, recipe for mixing, 13 
Melophagus ovinus (see Sheep Spider 
Fly, or Sheep Tick) 
Mercurial ointment, to kill Warble mag¬ 
got, 69-71 
“ Noisy ” Breeze Fly, 31, 33 
