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FIG. II, 

 MUSCA HXRSUTA, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Deep black, gloffy, and befet with long brjftly hairs : wings blackjfb, 

 at the bafe fubfufcous. 



Musca TEEivjULA. Fabr. Spec. Inf, 2. p. 442. n> 3?? 



The prefent infe6t bears a ftrong refemblance to the Mufca groffa, 

 of which it might be confidered, at the firft view, as a dwarf variety, 

 being rather lets than half the fize of that fpecies. As in Mufca groffa, 

 the thorax, and abdomen are befet with ftiff briftly hairs, but theie are 

 more numerous, and at lead twice the length in proportion, in the 

 prefent fpecies, to thofe on the former infecl. 



The Mufca hyftrix of Drury is very fimilar to this in appearance, 

 but is larger t it approaches, however, ftill nearer the infe6t called by 

 Harris (Expof.) Mufca obfidianus, than Mufca hyftrix. 



From the cabinet of Dr ? Letfom, 



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