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Lefs than the common houfe-fly, Mufca Domejiica. It inhabits 

 various parts of Europe, and is not common in England. 



The thorax is of a brownilh colour lineated with dufky : the body 

 nearly round, and marked down the middle of the back with a feries 

 of blackilh fpots or dots ; the wings are whitiih, faintly tinged with 

 teftaceous towards the bafe, and the legs biackiih. 



FIG, II, 

 MUSCA ARCUATA. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



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SYNONYMS, 



Elongated, black, fpots on the fides of the thorax, and four 

 arcuated bands on the abdomen yellow. 



Musca Aecuata : nigra, antennis elongatis, thorace maculis lar 

 teribus, abdomine cingulis quatuor arcuatis flavis. 

 Linn. Fn. Suec. 1806. 



Syhphus Arcuatus : Fabr. Ent. Syji. T. 4. p. 293. n. 55. 

 Panz. Fn. Germ. 2. tab. 10. 



This fpecies is found on flowers. It is a general inhabitant of 

 Europe; in England this infecl is fcarce. 



Fabricius defcribes a very diftincl fpecies from this under the name 

 of Mufca Arcuata; the infeft we have figured is the Mufca Arcuata 

 Only of Linnaeus, Syrphus Arcuatus of Fabricius. 



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