410 Mr. Bkacy Clauk o)i a new Species of Cuterebra. 



duced from Villers, it would appear to be that stumbling-block 

 of systematists in entomology, the (K. Bovis of my enumeration *, 

 and not of Linnanis, as he states, who, as we have repeatedly 

 said, described the Œ. Equi for this species. The Œ.pictus 

 of this author, beautifully figured by Curtis in the British Ento- 

 mohgi/, no. xxvi. /. 100', I rather suspect to be the faucial bot 

 of the Stagt, 



As the species of the new genus Cuterebra were taken for 

 (Estri till I separated them, and are closely allied to them in 

 their habits, 1 have ventured at the close of this paper to com- 

 municate to the Society a nevv and undescribed species lately 

 received from America, along with some other insects sent me 

 by my nephew, Joseph Clark, from the Illinois. 



CUTEREBUA FONTINELLA. 



C. thorace atro, lateribus albis ; abdoraine violaceo, ultimis seg- 



mentis albis, nigro-punctatis. 

 White-tailed Cuterebra, or Blue Rabbit Fly. 

 Habitat in Illinoe Americas Septentrionalis, cuniculos infes- 



tans. 



Descr. Cuterebra Caniculi dimidio minor; atra, subcylin- 

 drica, cum capite parùm latior. Froiis insuper atra et 

 circa oculos lucida, infra albida, pilosa, utrinque puncto 

 elevato atro. Oculi picei. Thorax insuper ater, late per 



* The lines on the thorax, and the figure of Villers, undoubtedly confirm it. Mei- 

 gen's Œ. Both is the Œ. Bovis of my enumeration, under which this should have come 

 as a synonym. 



•\- I may here observe, that a few days since, in visiting the British Museum, 1 

 was shown the insect Dr. Leach has called Œstnis Clarkii, and find it only a variety, 

 and scarcely that, of the Œstrus veterinus of my enumeration. 



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