ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



ECH1NOMYIA GROSSA. Dumeril. 

 Musca grossa. LinnL 



Hairy and black : head dirty yellow : eyes mode- 

 rately large and brown : thorax and body black and 

 shining and closely covered with long and sharp 

 spines : legs black and spinous : wings fulvous fer- 

 ruginous at the base. 



Length 8 lines, expansion of the wings If inch. 



Inhabits open parts in woods and warrens in the 

 Autumn. The larvae is said to be bred in cow-dung. 

 E. grossa is the largest species of the Muscidce and is 

 a scarce insect. 



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