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PLATE DXLIX. 



MUSCA ATHERIX. 



ATHERIXINE MUSCA. 



DIPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a foft exferted flefliy probofcis, and two unequal lips: 

 ucker befet with briftles: feelers fliort and two in number, or fome- 

 times none : antennae ufually fliort. 



* Antennas moniliform, with a terminal brittle. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



JktfB 



SYNONYMS. 



Black: body with a grey fpot on each. fide of all the fegments: \n 

 the middle of the coftal margin of the wings a dufky fpot unrounded 

 Jby a crefcent of hyaline dots, and a dulky fpot at the bafe. 



Atherix maculata (mas) Meig. Clafs. und.Befch. t. l.p.274. 



This infea, which is clearly of the Mufca tribe in the fyftem of 



Jinnseus, conftitutes a new genus in the work of Meigel, under the 



name of Atherix.— The laft-mentioned genus has been recently 



adopted by Latreille in his fubdivifious of the. Mufcae, 



There 



