PLATE LXXXIV. 7 3r 
Common in the months of Aday and Funes is ufually found in the 
open path-ways near woods. It appears to be moft peculiar to a fandy 
or light gravel foil. 
FT Gee Th. 
LEP a UR A weeGhuUeA TTC A. 7 
SPECIFIG CHARACTER. 
_ Green-gold. Antenna black. A tubercle on each fide of the corf- 
Jet. Shells ftriated and truncated. Pofterior thighs larger with a 
fpine on the interior fide. ; 
. Lian. Syft. Nat. 2. 637. 1.—Fn. Sv. 697. 
Lerrura aquatica fpinofa, &c. Degeer. Inf-'5. 140. 80. Tab. 4. 
Bigs Th TS. 
Stenocorus, &c. Geoff. Inf. 1.229. 12. 
CantHarise Raj. Inj. 100. 1. 
SCARAB AUS. Pre Wii toe 22 Pano. Pig: 2, 
Downacia craffipes. Fab. Spec. Inf. 1. 245. 52. 1. 
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This Infect is very common in England during the early part of 
fummer ; it lives on aquatic vegetables, and runs with much celerity 
when difturbed. It has alfo been found among the decayed wood of 
_ willow trees. 
Fabricius has altered its {pecific, as well as its generic title; it 
ftands in his Syftem as Donacta craffipes. 
FIG. 
