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PLATE LXVIII.

FIG . I. II.

DYTISCUS MINUTUS.

COLEOPTERA .

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennae taper, or clavato perfoliated. Feet villous and broad,

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Ycllow-brown, Shells striated, and marked with short longitudinalstripes of black.

Fabri. Spec. Ins. i, 297. ztz.

Chrysomela Minuta. Linn. Syfi, Nat.

Dytiscus Minutus. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 667.23.— En. Sv. 778.Pytifcus Ruficollis. Degeer. Inf 4. 404. 18. Tab. 16. Fig. 9,

Lipnæus placed this Insect among the ChRYSOMELÆ, under thespecific name Minuta \ but Degeer consigned it to the Dytiscusgenus, and gave it the name Ruficollis: As a Dytiscus it also ap-peared in the Syfiema Natures ; and Fabricius, as well as other lateEntomologists , have determined it to that genus, either calling itMinutus , or after Degeer, Ruficollis.

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j At Fig . I. is represented its appearance when magnified, and at5 Fig. II. the natural fine.

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