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PLATE CCLXL 



F I G. I. I. 



HIPPOBOSCA EQUINA. 

 Horse, or Spider Fly. 



DiPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Roftrum bivalve, cylindrical, obtufe and wavering. Antenns 

 ihort, fetaceous. Without fteinmata. Feet armed with many nails 

 or crotchets. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



ANO 



STNONTMS, 



Wings obtufe. Thorax variegated. Feet armed with three 

 crotchets. 



I^IPPOBOSCA Equina, alis obtufis, thorace albo variegato, pedibus 

 tetradadylis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 2. loio. I. Fn, Sv., 

 1921. — Fab. Ent. Syji. Vol. 4.. p. 415. i. 

 Degeer. InJ. 6. 257. I. tab. 1 6. fig. i. 

 Reatim. Inf. 1. tab. 179. fig. 8, 9. 



Few fpecies of Hippobofc^ have hitherto been difcovered. Four 

 kinds were known to Linnasus, and Fabricius has not encreafed 



C that 



