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PLATE DVIL 



MUSCA MORTUORUM. 



DIPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a foft exferted flefhy probofcis and two equal lips : 

 fucker furnifhed with brinies : feelers two, very fliort (or none) antenna 

 ihort. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Antennae feathered ; thorax black : abdomen braffy green : legs 

 Mack. 



MuscA Mortuorum : antennis plumatis, thorace nigro, abdomine 

 viridi zeneo, pedibus nigris. Linn. Syfl. Nat. 

 2. 986, 66.— Fn. Sv. 1830.— Fabr. Ent. Syfl. 

 T.4. 318. ».23. 



A native of Sweden, and other parts of Europe ; it is to b 

 (Bfteemed alfo a britifh fpecies, a fpecimen having been lately tak 



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