INSECTS. DIPTERA loo. Mufca. 607 
Inliabits SW/b, »nd is very deftruftive to the roots of turnips, 
clpccially thofe growing in a Tandy foil : lar-va white, with- 
out feet, the head pointed and tipt with black, and uudcrgoe* 
its tranlfoimation about September: brown oblong an- 
nulate with Teginents, and becomes a perfefl; fly thefollowiag 
May, 
'^^Smrais. ThoraK hairy with pale black lines • abdomen ferruginous, 
the tip tclfcUate with black and grey. 
Inhabits American IJlands i large. 
Bead lllvcry, the crown duiky ; antennae long incumbent black; 
Jcutel lubterruginous : ‘ujings duiky ; Icale ot thtfatjers white : 
legt black. 
Hairy, black ; lip cinercou* ; wings white with a black 
lib. 
Inhabits Germany. 
Antennae oblong black : thorax and abdomen very hairy black 
immaculate ; fcaU of the fei/ert arched fnowy : leg% black. 
Hairy, black : wings with tranfverfc white dots. 
Inhabits Europe. Fu. Suec. 1843* 
Black ; abdomen cylindrical with 2 whitilh bands in the 
middle 
Inhabits bu^jfize of M. comprella. 
Head whitilh with a black line on the crown : thorax blackilh an 4 
nightly teflellate : abdomen very hairy. 
Black ; abdomen red with a black tip and ftriatc down the 
middle, 
Donovan, i. tab. 31./^. 3 * Degeer. In/. 6. tab. l./g. 9. 
Inhabits Europe ; lizc ot M. domcllica. JS^outk v^huc. 
’ Hairy, black : abdomen teiTellate, the bafe ferruginous each 
iide. 
Inhabits Denmark » rubcylindrical. 
Blackilli : fecond fegments of the abdomen and fidcs of the 
third diaphanous. 
Inhabits Europe, in fwarms under the lhade cf trees. 
Half the lize of M. domcliica. Front ilver). 
^^^‘^ialis. Cinereous ; thorax with 5 black fpots ; abdomen withob- 
lolctc fpots. 
Inhabits Europe, and appear* in fwarms betore rain. 
*Subfid' 
