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I SHOULD like to direct attention to an interesting parasite of the house-fly which is in this district extremely abundant this summer. The creature is, as a rule, very hard to find, and many thousands of flies may be caught in ordinary seasons without a single parasite being found upon them. The animal in question is one of the Pseudo-Scorpionides (? Chelifer), easily recognisable by its pair of long chelæ, and I should be glad, if any of your readers would inform me to what genus it belongs and whether it is equally abundant this year in other places.
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HILL, M. A Parasite of the House-fly. Nature 72, 397 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072397c0
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