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PLATE LXVI. 



BOMBYLIUS MAJOR.- 

 Humble-bee Fly. 



D I P T E R A, 



Wings two. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Trunk taper, very long, fharp, between two horizontal valves. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Body fliort, thick, covered with thick yellowifh down. Wings 

 dark brown next the anterior margin; tranfparent next the pofte- 

 rior margin. Legs long, flender, black. 



Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. loog. i. — F72. Sv. 1918. 

 Borabylius varlegatus* &c. 



Degeer. Inf. 6. 268. i. Tah. 15. Fig. 10. 

 Afilus, &c. Geoff. Inf. 2. 466. I. 



Reaum. Inf. 4. Tab. 8. Fig. 11, 12, 13. 



Mcuff. Inf. 64. Fig. 5. 



Scop, Cam. 1018. 



R,aj. Inf 273. 



Schaeff. Icon. Tab. 79. Fig. 5. 



Huffnag. Inf Tab. 8. Fig. I. 



Aldr. Inf 350./. 10. 



We 



