- 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—
- Blood-sucking midges and gnats
- 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, 54
- Empusa muscæ, 56
- Eristalis tenax, 21
- Exclusion from rooms, 76
- Fannia canicularis, 7
- Fannia scalaris, 14, 18
- Filth-flies, 51
- Fleas, 108
- Flecked flesh, 29
- Fly chart, the Wingate, 88
- Fly-traps, 66
- Forest (or spider) fly, 22
- Fungus-flies, 51
- Futurist's Credo, 39
- Gad-flies, 23
- Garden pests, vegetarian, 17
- Gargantuan jokes, 32
- Gastrophilus, see Œstrus
- Gentles, apparatus for breeding, 80
- Gentles, green, 82
- Glossina morsitans, 62
- Green-bottle flies, 20
- Grey blow-flies, 19
- Hæmatobia stimulans, 16
- Hæmatopota crassicornis, 23
- Hæmatopota italica, 23
- Hæmatopota pluvialis, 23
- Hibernation, 15, 80
- Hippoboscidæ, 22
- Horse-flies, see Forest-flies
- House-fly fungus, 56
- House-fly, larva of, 35
- House-fly, wing pattern of, 12
- Hover-flies, 20
- Human intestinal myiasis, 25, 26
- Humble Creatures, 1, 34
- Instar, pupa, or chrysalid, 40
- Larvæ, see Maggots
- Lesser house-fly, larva of, 36
- Lesser house-fly, wing pattern, 12
- Louse-fly, tick, or ked, 22
- Lucilia Cæsar, 20
- Lucilia sericata, 20
- Lyperosia irritans, 17
- Maggots, feeding in company, 36
- Maggots, insectivorous, 21
- Maggots, jumping or hopping, 111, 112
- Maggots, myiasic possibilities, 28, 37, 82
- Maggots, parasitic on lepidoptera, etc., 111
- Maggots, predaceous, 109
- Maggots, "rat-tail," 21
- Maggots, "star-tail," 109
- Meal-worms, 80
- Merodon narcissi, 21
- Messengers of peril, 78
- Metamorphosis, 37
- Microdon, 22
- Musca corvina, 14, 17
- Muscina stabulans, 18, 27
- Nostril-fly of the sheep, 4, 26, 28
- Ocelli, visual importance of, 45
- Odour of humanity, attracted by, 33
- Œstrid flies, egg-laying aggressions, 31, 69
- Œstrus hominis, discredited, 28
- Œstrus (Gastrophilus) equi, 27
- Œstrus (Gastrophilus) hæmorrhoidalis, 26
- Œstrus nasalis 4
- Œstrus ovis, 28
- (Œstrus ovis hypoderma) bovis, see worble-flies
- (Œstrus ovis hypoderma) lineatum, see worble-flies
- Onion-fly, 17
- Owl-midges, moth-like, 109
- Pestering flies, commoner kinds of—
- Poisons, effective insecticide, 73
- Polietes lardaria, 18
- Pond blood-worms, 108
- Robber-flies, 54, 109
- Root-fly, the, 17
- Sarcophaga carnaria, 19
- Scatophaga stercoraria, 19
- Scavenging services, 78
- Scenopinus fenestralis, 110
- Sex differentiation, 45
- Soldier-flies, 22, 109
- Spiders, flies parasitic on, 110
- Stable-fly, 12, 13, 16, 51
- Stable manure, 67
- Stomoxys calcitrans, 12, 13, 16, 51
- Stratiomyidæ, 22, 109
- Swallow, attracted to breed, 53
- Syrphidæ, 20
- Syrphus, 21
- Tabanidæ, 10, 22, see also blood-sucking flies
- Tachinidæ, 10, 19
- Therioplectes, see blood-sucking flies
- Tipulidæ, 109
- Traps for flies, some ineffective, 72
- Turnip-fly, a beetle, 17
- Veins of wings, 11
- Voltairean atheism, controversy of, 5
- Volucella, 21
- Warning signals, flies as, 78
- Westminster Hospital and myiasis, 28
- Window-fly, the, 110
- Window screens, 77
- Wingate's nomenclature symbols, 12
- Wing patterns contrasted, 12
- Worble-flies, 26, 28, 69
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