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paper, a small oval shell, pointed at the two ends, which it 

 affixes to the leaves of a reed, and shuts itself up there. 

 This species is very common in Europe.* 



• See for the other species, Olivier, Col. III. No. 41, and Schoenherr. 

 Synom. Insect. II. No. 53. We find also in the Environs of Paris, the 

 Gyrini, minutus and bicolor, of Fabricius. The largest species, and all exotic, 

 have no sensible scutellum, and their palpi are but four in number. 



Mr. Macleay (the younger), Annal. Jav. I. p. SO, forms a peculiar 

 genus, under the name of Dineutes, with the species whose labrum is 

 not ciliated, whose palpi are club-formed, which have all the anterior feet 

 of the length of the body, and the antennas terminated in a point. He 

 names but one species {Politus). 



