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 PLATE LXVIII. 



FIG. I. 11. 

 BYTISCUS MINUTUS. 



COLEOPTERA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. ~ 

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



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Yellow-brown, Shells ftriated, and marked with ftiort longitudinal 

 ftripes of black. 



Fabru Spec. Inf. i. 297. 36. 

 Chryfomela Minuta. Lin7i. Syji. Nat. 



Dytifcus Minutus. Linn. SyJi. Nat. 2. 667. 23. — Fn. Sv. 778, 

 Dytifcus Ruficollis. Degeer. Inf. 4. 404. 18. Tab, 16. Fig, 9. 



Linnaeus placed t\i\s Infe£t among the CnRYSOMELiE, under the 

 fpecific name Minuta\ but Degeer configned it to the Dytiscus 

 genus, and gave it the name Ruficollis : As a Dytiscus it alfo ap- 

 ^eared in the Syflema Nature ; and Fabricius, as well as other late 

 Entomologifts, have determined it to that genus, either calling it 

 Minutus.^ or after Degeer, Ruficollis, 



At Fig, I. is reprefented its appearance when magnified, and at 

 fig. II, the natural fize. 



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