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PLATE CXLVI. 



BOMBYLIUS MEDIUS. 



DlPTERA. 

 Wings two. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Trunk taper, very long, between two horizontal valves. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Thorax and body yellowifh brown, white at the extremity. Wings, 

 with brown fpots. 



Bombylius Medius : alis fufco punclatis corpore flavefcente pof- 

 tice albo. — Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 1009. 2. 1919. 



Bombylius punctatus niger villis fulvis, alis fufco pun&atis. 



Be Geer. Inf. 6. 269. 2. tub. 15. fig. 12. 

 Schceff. Elem. tab. 21. 1. 



■ Icon. tab. 78. fig. 3. 



Fab. Syji. Ent. 802. 2. 



. Spec. Inf. 2. 473. 



The Bombylius genus is very concife. Fabricius in the Species 

 Infeclorum enumerates only nine fpecies, of thofe five are found in 

 Europe, major, medius, minor, ater andfufcus; the three former 

 are natives of this country ; the fourth is frequent in Germany ; the 



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