FLY. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennas short. 
Mouth formed by a soft fleshy proboscis, with two lateral 
lips. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Musca pendula. M. thorace lineis quatuor, abdomine fasciis 
tribus interruptis flavis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Gmel . 1 . p. 2868. 
Four lines on the thorax ; three irregular yel- 
low bands across the abdomen. 
Pendulous Fly. Reaum. Ins. 4. pi. 31. f. g. 11. Frisch. 
Ins. 4. pi. 13. Shaw Gen, Zool. 6. p. 382. 
pi. 105. 
The larva of this fly exhibits a striking example of 
contrivance adapted to a visible end, and such an one, 
indeed, as could alone ensure the life of an animal, 
which is destined to seek its food at the bottom of 
the water, and yet obliged to breathe from the sur- 
face at the same time. 
The celebrated French entomologist, M. Reau- 
mur, very properly called this animal Queue die rat , 
from the length of its tail, which is of a singu- 
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