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Ibirttr years go, or rather more, in the woods about Highgate which, 

 i„ c Jequence of the recent improvements in that v.cm.ty of the me- 

 troplis, are now demoted. It has occurred hkew. e m the wood, 

 of Kent. Our good friend, John Swainfon, Efq. of Liverpool me 

 with three fpecimens at the fame time ftickmg agamft the trunks of 



, , ,, .,+„v*>nr<i a«o. and was then eiteemed « 

 trees; this happened about twenty years a & o, 



rare circumftance. 



There is no other fpecies of Mufca that can be confounded with 

 this; the charaderiftic rufous colour of the thorax forms fuch a 

 (hiking contrail with the black of- the body and the dutlunefs of the 

 wings as to render this impoffible: neither do we recollect, among the 

 innumerable tribes of exotic fpecies, any infed fo ftrikingly Angular, 

 with the exception of fome of the Mutilla genus, the very different 

 ftruaure of which can never allow them to be miftaken for Mufca, 

 even by the moil cafual obferver. When clofely examined, the thorax 

 is perceptibly covered with fliort hairs ; the body is quite fmooth and 

 black, the legs black, and poifers pale yellowim. The whole furface 

 beneath is black. 



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