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PLATE CV^ 



NEPA LINEARIS- 



Linear Wateh Scorpion, 



hemiptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. , 

 Antennae, or Fore-legs cheliform. Wings croffed and complicated, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Brown, cylindrical. Head fmall. Thorax long. Legs Four. Ab- 

 domen red, with two long tails. 



Nepa Linearis, manibus fpina laterali poUicatis. Linn, Syji, 

 Nat, 2. 714. 7. Fn, Sv. 908. 



Nepa Linearis corpora anguftifllmo elongato, thorace longo, 

 tibiis anticis in medio fpina laterali. Degeer. Inf. 3, 

 369. 2. tab. 19 fig. I. 2. 



Jaocujiq aquatica, Mouffeti, Raj. Inf. 59. 



Fuef. Inf. Helv. 25. 473. 

 Gronov, Zooph. 683. 

 Schceff. Icon. tab. $,fig. 56* 

 Swam^nerdam Bibl. Nat, i, 233; tab. 3, 



fig' 9- 

 Roef, Inf. 3. 141. tab. 23. 



This fin^ular fpecies is by no means fo common as tl^e Nepa 



Ctnerea, already figured in this Work. One fpecimen was taken afe 



llford^ m EJex^ hft September i and Thomai Walford, Efq; met 



3 with 



