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PLATE CXLVI. 



BOMBYLIUS MEDIUS. 



DiPTERA. 



Wings two. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Trunk taper, very long, between two horizontal valves. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONl^MS. 



Thorax and body yellowifh brown, white at the extremity. Wings 

 with brown fpots. 



BoMBYLius Medius : alis fufco punilatis corpore flavefcente pof- 



tice albo. — Linn. Sy/i, Nat. 2. 1009. 2. 1 919. 

 BoMBYLius PUNCTATus niger villis fulvis, alis fufco pun6latis.— 

 De Geer. Inf. 6. 269. 2. tab. 15. Jig. 12. 

 Schceff. Elem. tab. 27. I. 



' Icon. tab. 78. jig. 3, 



Fab. Syji. Ent. 802. 2. 

 *" ■ — — Spec. Inf. 2. 473. 



The Bombylius genus is very concife. Fabriciiis in the Species 

 InfeSforum enumerates only nine fpecies, of thofe five are found in 

 Europe, major, medius, minor, ater and fufcus ; the three former 

 are natives of this country ; the fourth is frequent in Germany, the 



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