92 PLATTE XUL 
F.1-G. “Tea. 
Musca SEMI-ARGENTATA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Eyes brown. ‘Thorax green; changeable to filver. Abdomen 
- filvery, with fhades of bright yellow, and grey, and fome tranfverfe 
freaks of black, very changeable. 
Mufca femi-argentata. Marfham’s MSS. 
We do not find that this rare and beautiful Infe& has been de- 
fcribed either by Zinneus or Fabricius. It was taken a few years 
fince in Epping Foreft by Mr. Bentley, an eminent Collector of 
Englifh Infeéts, and noticed by Thomas Martham, Efq. Sec. L.S. 
in his Manufcript Notes, under the fpecific name Semi-argentata. 
Several {pecimens of it were taken laft June in Epping Foreft ; ex- 
cept them, we have not heard of any being met with for fome time. 
Fig. 2. natural fize. Fig. 3. magnified. 
PLACES 
