NATURAL HISTORY. agg 
The green Hor/e-Flie was brought from China, and has the body 
and under wings of a fine fhining green, which have the luftre of poe 
lifhed metal; the tips of their wings, and their under fides, are duiky 
®r black, but the upper wings are of a light brown colour, being very 
thin and tranfparent. 
__ The purple and brown Horfe-Fiie is a native of the Weff-Indies, and 
the wings are of a dirty purplith brown, with fome tranfparent {pots 
thereon. 
The Burrel Flie has an oblong body, which is divided into three prin- 
Cipal parts, namely, the head, the fhoulders, and the belly, which laf 
is divided into five or fix joints or rings. It is all over of a whitith 
colour, inclining to black, or rather grey, and it has a ftrong, braw- 
ney, long fnout. In Fuly and Auguft it is very troublefome to horfes 
and cattle. Moufet gives us an initance of a horfe that was tied with 
a halter to a tree in a wood, where he was killed in fix hours time by 
thefe Flies, which he fuppofed was owing to the great lofs of blood, of 
which they are very fond. 
Linneus calls thefe fort of Flies Tabanus, of which he has only twe 
forts, the common Tabanus and the T'abanus that can fee but very 
little ; but Ray has one which he calls the beautiful two-winged Flie, 
with large white fpots on the wings. It is of the fize of the common 
Houfe-flie, and has a brown head, breaft, aud body, only there is a 
-Yellowifh tin@ure under the roots of the wings: the eyes are large, 
of a bright fhining green, with a few black fpecks. 
Other authors have the black Tasanus, variegated with yellow, and 
with brown legs; the brown ’abanus with iron-grey fides, and three 
brown ftreaks over the eyes: the grey !'abanus with a.tranfverfe line 
Over the eyes: the brown Tabanus with grey wings, variegated with 
{mall white fpots, with green eyes, and four brown lines running over 
them; the long-bodied T'abanus; the T'abanus with a fhort body, and 
tranfparent wings: the black T'abanus with tranfparent wings. 
The Fle with white wings, and a black {pot on each, has a red large 
head, and a fhort blunt black body, and black legs; the eyes are large, 
and while fitting, it is conftantly fhaking its wings; they are common 
in orchards upon apple-trees. 
The Hairy-Flie is of a large kind, and has a body of a black oval 
thape, and its extremities are covered with a great number of yellow- 
ith hairs, as well as the breaft: the head and legs are black, and the 
Wings tranfparent, only they are whiteft towards the bafe, and have 
€ach a large iron-grey fpot towards the outer edge: this is not a very 
common Fie. % 
The black Fie is pretty large, and has a body of an oval blunt 
thape, the breaft is oblong, the head and eyes large, and the legs are 
lack: the fides are marked each with a very large pale-coloured f{pot, 
and the tail is befet with black hairs; moreover the fides of the belly 
@re covered with fomewhat of a fhelly fubftance. 
The green Fiie is as big as the blue flefh Flie, and has a black head, 
With large eyes; the breaft and body are of a beautiful green, with 
fomewhat of a brafly yellow cafe, which in fome lights appear bright 
and fhining: the legs are black, the eyes brown, and there is a double 
tranfverfe line on the belly ; the body ts of an oval fhape, and has four 
Oints, 
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