it inhabits Gardens in Italy. Two years previous, however, to the 

 appearance of Entomologia Syjlematica # , Roffius had defcribed and 

 figured this fpecies in his Fauna Etrufca -f-, as an Italian infect, fo 

 that the latter mtift be confidered as the firft defcriber of it. Pro- 

 bably it has not been noticed by any other continental writer fince | s 

 as a native of Great Britain it is certainly undefcribed. 



Mufca pulchella we rnuft efteem as a very fcarce infecT; in this; 

 country. Cur fpecimens Avere taken in the Wilds of Kent, neaf 

 Faverfham, and it -has occurred, though rarely, as we are informed^ 

 nearer the vicinity of London. 



The upper figure in the plate exhibits an enlarged feprefentation 

 of this curious infect in a flying pofition, the natural hze appears 

 below. 



4 1792. 



t Publifhed in 1790. 



-$ Gmelin omits this and many other very interefting infects defcribed by Jabriciusi 

 *#hich we might expect to find in his improved edition of the Linnaean Svftema 



Katur*. 



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