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Genus VOLUCELLA, Geoffroy. 



VOLUCELLA EA^ECTA, FciU. 



Nigra, fulvo-hirta, abdomine fasciis duabus nigro-hirlis omato, antennis 

 piceis, pedibus nigris, tarsis ferrugineis, alis subiimfidis fusco nebu- 

 losis fasciaque brem fusco ornati.t. 



Very like V. plumata, but is partly clothed with different-coloured 

 hairs, and the wings are more clouded. Black : head thickly clothed loith 

 tawny hairs on the crown, and having a few tawny hairs in front : eyes red : 

 mouth pitchy : feelers pitchy ; third joint red towards the tip ; sixth joint 

 tawny, black towards the tip, its hairs black, tawny at the base : chest 

 thickly clothed with tawny hairs : abdomen clothed with black hairs, adorned 

 with two bands of taivny hairs tvhich are thickest on the sides, one band at 

 the base paler than the other which is near the tip : legs black, clothed with 

 short black hairs ; knees ferruginous ; feet ferruginous, clothed with short 

 ferruginous hairs, pitchy at the tips ; claws black, ferruginous at the base ; 

 foot-cushions ferruginous : wings nearly colourless, veins clouded tvith pale 

 brown ; a blackish brotvn spot 07i the fore border joining a larger brown spot 

 which extends half across the wing-; wing-ribs and veins tawny ; veins 

 black towards the tips ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the 

 wings 14 lines. 



United States. 



YOLTTCELLA LINEARIS, Fcm. 



Ferruginea, capite fulro, abdomine nigro basi fulvo, antennis pedibusque 

 fuliis, alis subfulvis ad costam fuscis fulvo variis. 



Head bright taicny, clothed with short tawny hairs ; a black stripe on 

 each side of the peristoma : eyes black : mouth pitchy : feelers tawny ; 

 sixth joint darker towards the tip : chest and breast ferruginous, clothed 

 with tawny hairs : abdomen oval, black, clothed with very short black hairs, 

 tawny at the base, much longer than the chest : legs taivny ; lips of the shanks 

 and of the joints of the feet armed with little black spines : wings with a 

 slight tawny tinge ; a dark broum stripe which is tauny here and there extends 

 along the fore border and occupies near half the breadth of the iving ; wing- 

 ribs and veins tawny ; veins darker in the brown parts ; poisers tawny with 

 yellow knobs. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



