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PLATE CCCLXXII. 



MUSCA PLUVIALIS. 



RAINY FIVE-SPOT MUSCA. 



DIPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Mouth with a foft, exferted, fleflry probofcis, and two unequal 

 lips : fucker befet with brinies : feelers fhort, and two in number^ or 

 fometimes none : antennae ufually fhort. 



* Antenna a naked brijlie. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



i 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Cinereous, with five black fpots on the thorax, and obfolete fpot* 

 on the abdomen. 



Mtjsca Pluvialis : cinerea, thorace maculis quinque nigris, ab- 

 domine obfoletis. Linn. Fn, Suec. 1844.— Linnl 

 Syji. Nat. 2. 992. 83.— Gmel. Linn. Si/Ji. Nat. T. 1. 

 p. 5. 2847- .jp. 83. 



Musca Pluvialis. Fair. Spec Inf. 2. p. 443. «. 40.-Mant. 

 inf. 2. p. 346. n. 47. -Ent. Syft. T. 4. p. 329. 



Sp.n. 



La Mouche cendree a points noirs. Geoffr. Inf. Par. 2. p. 529- ». 68. 



Be Geer. Inf. 6. p. 27. n. 6, 



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