So 3 PLATE LXV. 
We have only.three fpecies. of this genus in Exigland, Major, Me+ 
dius, and Minor. 
July. 
Together with other fpecies of the Bombylius genus, it is fometimes 
called the Sword-Bee-Fly: this appellation it receives from the fingu- 
"Jar form of its trunk; to aflift our defcription; we have reprefented its 
appearance when magnified, at Fig. I. 
It hovers out flower to flower, when the warmth of the fun in« 
. vites it abroad, and extracts the near from flowers, by darting its 
probofcis into them, but never refts while feeding. 
PLATE 
B. Major is not very rare; its ufual.time of appearance is June and. 
