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PLATE LXVIIL

Is not common; our specimens were taken on Epping Forest in’June. it is an aquatic Insect , or one of that' kind which passesthrough the several states in the water, and subsists on the smallerkinds of Inlects, or on the fragments of macerated vegetables. Swimsvery swiftly.

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FIG. III. IV.

D YTISCUS FERRUGINEUS.

CoLEOPTERA ,

Dytiscus.

SPECIFIC CHAR ACTE R.

)sery convex. Above red-brown. Beneath paler,

Lin. Svst. Hat.

FIG . III. natural Size, FIG. IV. magnified!

This Insect is one of the fame family, and was found at the lametime and place as the preceding species. Is not very frequently metWith.

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