Muscine

"One can see by the description of the ovum and this account of early blastoderm formation that the egg of Glossina is intermediate between the typical muscine ovum with its thick periplasm and the very thin peripheral cytoplasmic layer of Melophagus, […]"

"If true, there is something peculiarly interesting in these periodical visitations—or, I should, perhaps, rather say migrations—of mice, for I was informed that these muscine armies come from the interior, or from that direction, towards the sea, which they boldly enter, and are consequently drowned and their bodies cast on the shore "by thousands.""