226 ORDER VI. Conops. 



The mouth formed by a porrected probofcis 

 which is bent, or fhuts like a clafp-knife. 



Three ftemmata. 



The abdomen for the molt part curve. 



The Rhingia of Scopoli is likewife a Linnsean 

 Conops s he defer ibes it as follows : 



The mouth armed with a trifeted probofcis ; 

 the middle bridle longer than the others, and 

 bifid, the lateral ones (on which the palpi are 

 feated) of equal length with one another ; the 

 flieath of the roftrum is univalve, attenuated, 

 and applied to the canal of the mouth. 



The Conops is chiefly found in meadows and 

 fields, where the different fpecies are very trou- 

 blefome to cattle. 



I do not know that the larvae or chryfalids 

 have been defcribed. 



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