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PLATE CCCCXC. 



FIG. I. 



MUSCA INANIS. 



DIPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 fucker furnifhed with briitles : feelers two^ and fhoit, or fometimes 

 none : antennae generally fhort. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 

 Brown : abdomen pale yellow, with three black bands. 



Muse A inanis : antennis plumatis pilofa flavefcens, abdomine pel- 



lucido cingulis duobus nigris. Linn. Syji, Nat. 



XII. 2. p. 989- n. 6\.—Fn. Suec. 1825. 

 SykphUS INANIS : fufca., abdomine pellucido : cingulis tribus nigris. 



Fabr. Spec. Inf. 1. p. 435. n. 1. — Want. Inf. 



I. p. 342. n. 1. 

 Mufca apivora. Degeer. Inf. 6. p. 56. n. 3. t. S.f. 4, 

 Volucella fexta. Scheff. Icon. pi. 36. fig. 7. 8. 



This is an interefting fpecies, and not common : the figure denotes 



the natural fize. 



i* FIG. 



