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PLATE CXXV.
MUSCA SEMINATIONIS.
Wings 2.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
A soft flexible trunk, with lateral lips at the end. No palpi.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Head and Thorax black-brown; Abdomen black, with very mi-nute specks of white. Wings clouded and speckled with brown.A yellow streak on the under side of the abdomen.
^Iusca Seminationis. Antennis setariis, alisatris cinereo punc-
tatis, abdomine bast sobtus stavo.Fab. Spec. Ins. 2. 452. 90.
This species is sometimes met with in meadows, on plaintain,Ihistles, &c. in May and June.
It is a very pleasing object, for the .Microscope , particularly the"’trigs, which are finely reticulated and spotted. Its magnified ap-pearance is given with its natural size in our plate.
H 2
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