Crossword-Solution: ASILUS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Round wooded Silarus and the ilex-bowers Of green Alburnus swarms a winged pest- Its Roman name Asilus, by the Greeks Termed Oestros- fierce it is, and harshly hums, Driving whole herds in terror through the groves, Till heaven is madded by their bellowing din, And Tanager's dry bed and forest-banks.

Treat,* an extraordinary number of small and large insects, even great flies of the genus Asilus, moths, and butterflies.

The Midas dives, and other species of large Brazilian flies, have dark wings and metallic blue elongate bodies, resembling the large stinging Sphegidæ of the same country; and a very large fly of the genus Asilus has black-banded wings and the abdomen tipped with rich orange, so as exactly to resemble the fine bee Euglossa dimidiata, and both are found in the same parts of South America.

Hornet fly (Zoöl.), any dipterous insect of the genus Asilus, and allied genera, of which there are numerous species.

Cattle indeed are as much incommoded by the _Broms_ (_Tabanus bovinus_) as by the very worst of the Fly or _Musca_ tribe, to which the _Tabanus_ certainly belongs; but by the _Oestrus_ (_Asilus_) they are frightened out of their wits.