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PLATE GCCCLXV. 



MUSCA CINGULATA. 



YELLOW GIRDLED MUSCA, 

 DIPT ERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 fucker furnished with briftles : feelers two, very fhort or fometimes 

 none : antennae generally lhort. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Musca cingulata. Deep velvetty black with a tingle yellow zone 

 on the firft joint of the abdomen : legs yellowing 

 extreme half of the thighs black. 



Taken, though not in abundance, in the month of July, on the 

 hedges near the road-side about Nuffield in Surrey. The fmalleft 



figure, No. I. exhibits the natural iize. 



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