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white body, with two black Max on it. 7. The brown and fomewhat hairy Fly, with 
the edge of the abdomen acute, and with three yellow lines, and a triangular fpot. 
8 . The bee Fly, produced from the long-tailed maggot of the neceflary houfes. 9. The 
black Fly, with a velvety body marked with three tranfverfe lines. 10. The black 
Fly, with the body marked with two yellow belts on the back. 11. The black Fly, 
with ferrugineous wings, with three white interrupted belts on the back. 12. The 
brown Fly, with ferrugineous wings, and with the edges of the fegments of the 
body grey. 
Of thofe which in the worm Jlate live on trees and plants , andfeed on the Infedls on 
them, there are, 1. The Fly, with the black oval body, and with a pair of lunular 
marks, and three yellow belts on it. 2. The Fly with an oval body, and three pair of 
whitilh lunulae : this is called by authors the Probofcis Elephantis, it lives in the 
worm-date on the pear-tree. 3. The oblong, yellow-bodied Fly, with black tranf¬ 
verfe lines. 4. The oblong-bodied Fly, with three pair of fquare, yellow fpots. 
5. The long-bodied Fly, with three pair of trigonal, yellow fpots. 6. The cylin- 
dric-bodied Fly, with three pair o white lunula; on the back. 7. The grey Fly, with 
four black fpots on the back of the body. 8. The oblong-bodied Fly, with the hin¬ 
der legs the larger. 9, The Fly, with the body marked with three yellow, reflex, 
circular lines. 
Of the fhining or gilded Flies, befide the fourth defcribed fpecies, there are, i.The 
Fly, with a (hining blue bread, and a fhining green body. 2. The Fly, with a 
fhining green bread, and a fhining blue body. 3. The Fly, with a black thorax and 
green body. 4. The Fly, with a black bread and blue body. 5. The oblong-bodied 
Fly, with the head green, the thorax yellow, the body of a copper colour, and the 
wings marked with a brown fpot. 6. The oblong Fly, with a brafly thorax, and the 
body yellow in the fore part, and black behind, with wings without any fpots on 
them. 
Of thofe refembling the com?non hoife Fly , there are, 1. The common houfe, flefli 
Fly, with a black, teflelated body, and with oblong dreaks of black on the thorax. 
2. The black Fly, with a white forehead. 3. The black Fly, with the body fmooth 
and glofly. 4. The fmooth, black Fly, with ferrugineous eyes, and the bafe of the 
thighs whitifh j this is produced from the common maggots in cheefe. 5. The fmooth 
black Fly, with the edges of the wings black, and thicker than the other part. 6. The 
fomewhat hairy black Fly, with nervous wings. 7. The grey Fly, with fine black 
marks upon the thorax, and with tridentated marks on the abdomen. 8. The yellow 
Fly, with the abdomen brown on the upper part, and three black dreaks on the 
thorax. 9. The yellow Fly, with black eyes. 
C U L E X. 
f '""i H E head of the culex is furnifhed with a fiphon or fucker very flender, ob- 
j[ long, and filiform. 
Culex fufcus rojlro hifurco. 
The brown Culex , with a forked roflrutn. 
This is of twice the bignefs of the common Gnat, but it much refembles it in fhape : 
it’s body is long, flender, and grey ; it’s wings are large, thin, and dear, and have no 
fpots in them : the fnout is prominent, as in the other fpecies of this genus ; it’s va¬ 
gina is bifurcated at the top, or formed into two patulous leaves, which are hairy, and of 
a lanceolated figure, and the roflrum or fucker is flender, and placed between them. 
This is a very common fpecies about waters 5 while in the worm date, it lives in 
the water. Ray has defcribed it under the name of Tiputa domedicas forte foemina. 
Culex lanigerus allsfemifufcis. %\yi lyumhlt- 
The lanigerous Culex , with fomewhat obfcure wings . JfllT 
* his is extreamly unlike all the red of the Culices in form, but the drudlure of 
t . j :.'vcker evidently refers it to the fameclafs with the Gnats: it is very like the com- 
llion humble-bee in ihape, and even in fize 1 it is covered with an extreamly thick 
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