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Lefs than the common houfe-fty, Mufca Domeflka. It inhabits 

 various parts of Europe, and is not common in England. 



The thorax is of a browniih colour lineated with dufky : the body 

 nearly round, and marked down the middle of the back with a feries 

 of blackifh fpots or dots ; the wings are whitifh, faintly tinged with, 

 teftaceous towards the bafe, and the legs blackjih. 



FIG. II. 

 MUSCA ARCUATA, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 



Elongated, black, fpots on the fides of the thorax, and four 

 arcuated bands on the abdomen yellow. 



Musga Arcuata : nigra, antenuis elongatis, thorace maculis la- 

 teribus, abdomine cingulis quatuor arcuatis flavis. 

 Linn. Fn. Suec. 1806. 



Sybphus Arcuatus: Fabr. Ent. Sj/Jl. T. 4. p. 293. n. 55, 

 Panz. Fn. Germ. 2. tab. 10. 



This fpecies is found on flowers. Jt is a general inhabitant of 

 Europe ; in England ihi$ infect is fcarce. 



Fabricius defcrib(?s a very diftinct fpecies from this under the name 

 of Mufca Arcuata; the infect we have figured is the Mufca Arcuata 

 only of Linnaeus, Syrphus Arcuatus of Fabricius. 



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