26° PLATE CCCCXLV. 
This is a remarkably pretty fpecies, and appears to confiderable ad- 
vantage before the lens of an opaque microfcope. ‘The two fmall 
diftinét black dots on the extreme joimt of the abdomen is a ftriking 
charaéter of this mterefting infect. 
The fmalleft figure reprefents the natural fize ; this fpecies is found 
on plants in Europe, and 1s rare. 
FIG. IL. II. 
MUSCA SERICEA. 
SILKY MUSCA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. — 
Musca sericza. Silky: head, thorax and fcutel fubteftaceous: 
firft three joints of the abdomen reddish-orange with 
a dorfal black ftripe ; tip greyifh black. - 
A curious fpecies and of the fize denoted by the {mallet figure (Ne. 
9.) in the annexed plate. ‘The whole furface of this infeét except the 
wings has a delicate filky appearance: the thorax is marked in the 
middle with two diftant black lines, and each fide with two fhorter 
lines 
