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PLATE DXXXVI. 



r BOMBYLIUS MINOR. 



SMALL HUMBLE BEE FLY. 

 BIPTEKA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a very long ftraight fetaceous fucker, formed of two 

 unequal horizontal valves, and containing fetaceous ftings. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Wings immaculate : body yellowifh, hairy : legs teftaceous. 



Bombylius minor: alis immaculatis, corpore fiavefcente hirtOj 

 pedibus teftaceis. Linn. Syjl. Nat. 1009. 4.— 

 Fn. Sv. 1920.— Fahr. Ent. Si/Jh T. 4. 40^. 

 n. 9. 



This is the laft of the Bombylius tribe we have to defcribe in the 

 prefent work ; three fpecies only being found inBritain and of thefe 



two are already included. 



The 



