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PLATE DLIX. 



MUSCA EPHIPPIUM. 



RUFOUS-THORAX MUSCA. 

 IMPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a fhort exfeited flefhy probofcis, and two equal lips : 

 fucker furniflied with briftles: feelers two, very fhort, or fometinies 

 none: antenna generally fhort. 



* Stratiomys. Fabr. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Scutel furniflied with two teeth : thorax rufous, fpinous each fide. 



Musca ephippium : fcutello bidentato, thorace rufo utrinque fpinofo., 

 Fabr. Sp. Inf.Z. p..417. n. 2.—Mant. Inf. 2. 

 330. n. 4,,—Ent. Syft. T. 4. 264. n. 6. 

 Geoffr. Inf. 2. 480. 3. 



Musca inda. Schranck. Inf. Aujiral. p. 438. n. 891. 



Taken in Coombe Wood, on the 4th of June, 1812, by Geo. 

 Milne, Efq. F.L.S. 



Mufca ephippium is confidered as a fearce infect in this country. 

 It is known to have been taken occafionally by the old collectors about 



thirty 



