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XlV. Account^ accompanied by a Figure, of a minute Ichneumon* By 

 George Shaw, M. D. F. R. S. V. P. L. S. 



Read Nov. 7, 1797. 



THIS accurate microicopic drawing was made fome years ago, 

 of a fpecies of Ichneumon, which may perhaps be the Ichneumon 

 atomos of Linnarus, an infect which in the Syjlema Nature is faid to 

 be found at Upfal, and to be fmaller than a common mite. Such 

 was certainly the cafe with the infect from which the figure was 

 taken, and which, when living, was fcarce to be perceived, except 

 when in motion on the furface of the window on which it was 

 difcovered. It may be doubted, however, whether it be the Ichneu- 

 mon atomos of the Syftema Nature, fince it did not appear to be varied 

 with whitifh, as there defcribed, but to be rather of an uniform 

 polifhed black. The wings are beautifully iridefcent, and are edged 

 with extremely long black hairs. 



Its character (fuppofing it not to be the Ichneumon atomos of Lin- 

 naeus) may be thus defcribed : 



Ichneumon punttum. 



Ichneumon niger nitidus, alia iricoloribus, margine pilis longiili- 

 mis nigris. 



Tab. 18.^, 1. reprefents the Ichneumon pundlum highly mag- 

 nified. 



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