DIALOGUE XXXVII. 
MUSCiE, OR FLY TRIBE. M. VOMITORIA. 
M. CARNARIA. 
LUCJT. I am very happy, marama, 
that you can go on with the history of 
the flies to-day. 
Mother. The musca vomit oria is the 
large blue fly, which is familiarly known 
to you by the name of the blue-bottle fly, 
and whose loud humming noise, on warm 
days, is so disagreeable. But it has other 
habits, which are still more disagreeable, 
particularly to butchers and cooks, for it 
places its eggs on any sort of dead animal 
flesh, and these eggs are hatched in the 
short space of a few hours. As soon as 
the maggots come out they begin to eat ; 
in eight or nine days they attain their 
