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PLATE DLXXIV. 



MUSCA TENAX. 



DIPTEEA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Mouth with a foft exferted fleftiy probofcis with two equal lips : 

 fucker furniftied with briftles ; feelers two, very fliort or none : an- 

 tennae ufually fljort. 



* Syrphus. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Downy: thorax grey: abdomen brown: hind-flianks compreffed 

 and gibbous. 



Musca tenax. Linn. Syfi. Nat. 2. 984. 32 — Fn. Su. 1799- 

 §YBPHUS TENAX : antennis fetariis tomenofus thorace grifeo, abdo- 



mine fufco, tibiis pofticis compreffo gibbis. Fabr, 



Ent. Syft. T. 4. 288. 36, 



Found in dung and putrid fubftances. 



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