  - Air-sacks, breathing by, 46
- Anthomyida, 10, 17
- Asilus crabroniformis, 55
- Aphides, plant-lice, etc., 8
- Beelzebub, Lord-of-flies, 2
- BibionidÆ, semi-blindness of, 108
- Birds, food for, 80
- Black death, 2
- Blood-sucking flies, kinds of—
- genus, chrysops, 24
- genus, hÆmatobia, 16
- genus, hÆmatopota, 23
- genus, lyperosia, 17
- genus, tabanus, 23
- genus, therioplectes, 23
- Blood-sucking midges and gnats
- —common species—
- ceratopogon pulicaris, 108
- ceratopogon bipunctatus, 108
- ceratopogon varius, 108
- (also others of the same genus and of the allied genus, anopheles)
- culex pipiens, 108
- Blue-bottles, 12, 18, 33, 36, 51
- Borborus equinus, 34
- Bot-fly of the horse, 26
- Breeze-flies, "blinden," 10, 23, 29, 69
- Bridgewater Treatises, 1
- Cabbage-fly, 17
- Calliphora erythrocephala } see blue-bottles
- Calliphora vomitoria } see blue-bottles
- Celery-fly, 17
- Chelifers, 55
- Chrysops cÆcutiens, 24
- Chrysops relicta, 24
- Conops flavipes, 22
- Contagion, fly-borne, 84
- Cordylurida, 10
- Cow-dung fly, the yellow, 19
- Crane-flies, or Daddy-long-legs, 109
- Cremation of refuse, 41, 61, 65, 70
- Cyrtoneura simplex, 17
- DipterÆ, nearly 3,000 species, 10
- Dragon-flies, 55
- Drone-flies, 20, 22
- Dun-flies, see Gad-flies
- Dust-bins, preferably open, 65, 70
- Dust destructor furnace, imperative, 65
- Economic value of the fly, 41
- Egg-traps, domestic refuse as, 65, 72
- EmpidÆ, Transcribers note.
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