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PLATE CCCCXXIX. 



MUSCA HEMIPTERUS. 



DIPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a foft exferted flefhy probofcis, and two unequal lips : 

 Sucker befet with briftles : feelers fhort, and two in number, or forae- 

 tisnes none : antennae ufually ftiort. 



* Syrphus: antennae naked. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Musca Hemipterus. Downy: thorax with a ferruginous border: 

 wings thick, cinereous: fufcous varied with yel- 

 lowifh. 



Syrphus Hemipterus : antennis fetariis tomentofus thoracis limb© 

 ferrugineo, alis craffioribus cinereis fufco fla- 

 vefcentique variis. Fabr. Ent. Syjt. T. 4. 284. 

 n. 22. 

 Schaeff. Icon. Tab. ll.fig.6l 



Musca Subcoleoptrata : Gmel. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2869- ?i*3S5* 



An infeA nearly allied to the Linnaean Conops fubcoleoptrata, or 

 Mufcafubcoleoptrata of the Gmelinian edition of the Syftema Naturae. 



Gmelin 



