Excerpt from A Decade of Curious Insects: Some of Them Not Describ'd Before Shewn in Their Natural Size and as They Appear Enlarg'd Before the Lucernal Microscope, in Which the Solar Apparatus Is Artificially Illuminated With Their History, Characters, Manners, and Places of Abode
The sting or Saw which terminates it, is flatted, and thin, and of a chefnut brown; {aw'd in the Female, plain in the Male. On prefiing the body of the Fly between the fingers, it may be forc'd out farther, a little from the vent.
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