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YOUR correspondent, Mr. F. N. Pierce, in NATURE for November 27 (p. 82) merely continues the error suggested by Dr. Bonavia's note on this subject. It is not the larvæ of the house fly (Musca domestica) that he has found as parasites on his butterfly and moth caterpillars, but the larvae of a Tachina, a Dipterous genus of the Muscidœ too well known among even mere collectors, I should have thought, for such a mistake to be made. There is of course a superficial resemblance.
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S., M. Fly-Maggots Feeding on Caterpillars. Nature 31, 103 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031103b0
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