* 3 o ORDER VI. Bombylius. 



Genus IX. Bombylius. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 1009. .. 



The roftrum of the Bombylius is por- 

 redted, fetaceous, very long, and formed 

 by two horizontal valves, in which are 

 contained fetaceous flings or briftles. 



Scopoli, who defcribes under this title only the 

 fame fpecies found in the SyftemaNatur^obki'veSy 

 that the probofcis is long, porrefted, and bivalve, 

 and that the upper valve is entire at its extre- 

 mity, bearded, and ihorter than the under one, 

 which Jail is bifid at its end, and not hairy $ 

 that the two palpi are deprefTed, and feated at 

 the bafe of the inferior valve ; and that the 

 briftles at the bafe of the probofcis are two in 

 number. 



Geoffroy has placed the only one of this 

 genus which he had met with, among his Afili, 

 from which genus it differs in the number of 

 briftles feated at the bafe of the probofcis, which 

 are four in number in the Afilus \ in the length 

 of the probofcis, which part is much longer in 

 the Bombylius than that of the Afilus ; and in 

 the pofition of the wings, which in the laft-men- 



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