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TENTHRED OULVMETUOS A. 
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Plate 1. 
Character of the Species.. 
The ANTLERS have feven joints, and are all the way of a thicknefs. 
The Heap and Trunk are red; the Body is black. 
Plate 1. a, 
This pretty, quiet, melancholy Fly is found among Alder Plantati- 
ons ; and is often fatally entangled in the clammy juice, that oozes 
from their Leaves. I caught it this laft May, by the road-fide, near 
Uxbridge. 
Its Heap is of the fineft fcarlet. 
The Eyes are blue. 
The Antlers.are of a dufky brown, and hairy. 
The Fee/ers fhort, and pale. 
The Mouth is arm’d with hard and crufty jaws. 
Its Trunk is {carlet above, and of a ruddy brown below. 
The Scutcheon is of a deeper red. 
The Poznts on it are blue. . 
The Bopy is coal-black above, and greyifh black below. 
Its Rings are divided. by lines, form’d of a deep brown membrane 
joining them. 
Its~ 4z--holes are of a.dead brown. 
The Lees are grey ; they are all of a length, and have two claws. 
The Wines are of a pale yellowifh brown, with little yellow rifings 
on the ribs, and an edge of deeper yellow... 
The Tarr is of a deep brown, 
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