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Llnneus has given of it been attended to, this mist 

 take would have been avoided, for the terms " Pe- 

 dibiis, maxillisque flavescentibus" will not by any 

 means agree with A. linguaria. In the Fauna 

 Suecica other characters are added to the above, 

 which, if they had not been overlooked, would 

 have furnished a further proof, that this insect was 

 not the insect of Linneus. " Magnitudine dimidiae 

 Musc^ domesticce; toto corpore nigra, exceptis 

 pedibus et maxillis pallida luteis. Antennae fili- 

 formes, corporis fer^ longitudine, subtus pallidio- 

 res." Fabricius finding that the definition of Lin- 

 neus would not suit the insect which he mistook 

 for A. tumulorum, has altered it, omitting " pedes 

 flavi," the most striking distinction of the true one, 

 and adding hirsuties, a circumstance which does 

 not belong to it(77?). I am not, at present, ac- 

 quainted with his Eiicera tumulorum. 



folUnaris.Ol. A. nigra, albido-pubescens ; thorace flavesn 

 centi; abdomine fusco, polline pallido. 



FIG. Tal'.l7.fg.3. 

 MUS. D.Banks. 



Long. Corp. Lin, /|. 

 Hal. In Anglia. 



DESCR. Acul. 



CORPUS nigrum, pube albidA. 

 Caput. Oculi magni, prominuli. Labium paU 

 lido-barbatum. Antenna nigrae. 



(m) Antennis longitudine corporis hirsuti nigrique, man« 

 dibulis flavis. 



Truncus, 



