GYR 
doth of them. Ineach cell isa folitary feed, of an ovate 
onvex on one — flat ont the other, f 
abell Sid or ra- 
c rae remains at the bottom of - 
eath ; thorax and wing-cafes mar- 
1, the latter Sloetet “than the body ; 3 legs formed: for 
g- 
"The gyrinus at the firft view appears fo nearly allied to the 
ditifons, that Scopoli has united them in the fame genus ; 
mott eflential difference confifts in the number of the eyes, 
anding waters, wicks a an eafily 
Sheiabed b Siecsn fhining blacknefs, and the f{wift and 
oh g 
their motions in ferent The are 
f 
= a on the furface of t 
immediatel om, awing af 
them a sila bubble, refembling a globule of spite iver. 
larve are unknown gener o re- 
» but are y 
femble thofe of the dytifeus In fone thefe] beetles are 
fometimes - flea 
He aD 
_Mazason Oval, fub-ftriated, and Bledk. Geoff. yi if 
ous natator, Linn. Fn. Suec. Pulex aquaticus, Merret, 
mole Modeer. 
Europe, in é 
Black, bees anes inous 5 ; pofterior le: 
compre Fab: si ‘ a 
Larger than the laft, and inhabits Swede 
“Au Somewhat {triated and- eR ; ridge 
cafes See sat fin gig = Modeer. Fabr. & a 
F w Holland ; wing-cafes trun- 
e four pofterior leo ferruginous. 
_Smooth, black, and opaque ; four pofte- 
Fabr?'~ 
“Nae = South America, and réfembles fakecee but is 
-"Bidboth: olive, polifhed; win wcafes with a 
black band'b bebiad: Fab: cf 4 
The largeft of its genus, aa inhab 1a SSetsie's the body 
olints. with coppery and eat gs beneath black ; 
eee : 
ed with yellow, the age fpinous. abr. 
ss deka 
a wing cles 
GYR 
Grossus. Beneath black ; Poste paler, - 
ned wing-cafes rounded at "the 
aro 
or ferruginous ; above brat 
two {pots on the front, 
thorax, and ftreaks on’ the cg = eens, lei goth 
Native 
“Ones NTALIS. Beneath pale iritiriotis above braffy- 
black; wing-cafes each fide bl 3 wing-cafes flriated, 
bronzed, four-toothed behind. Mod 
Body roundith ; wing-cafes as least as the abdomen. Na- 
tive place unknown 
VIOLA AQUATICA. Beneath pale ferrugivous ; abo 
black, with moufe-coloured down. Modeer. Viola aquatica, 
drove us, &c. 
Inhabits falt-waters 
Krreit. Above braffy-black ; beneath yellow. Marth. 
Length one line and three quarters ; 
legs as “well as body beneath yellow. 
ODEERI. Above fmooth, 
» downy; beneath 
refled. Marfh 
f 
black, and fomewhat 
pale ferruginous ; potterior tr legs com- 
oo Britain. Length three lines. 
ELONGATUS. Black, opaque, and elongated ; wing- 
cafes fae with dots. ‘Mar fh. 
Length three lines, and inhabits Britai 
Gyninus, in Zoology, a name ufed for a fpecies of the 
Cereari, and alfo ~ the Aten 
GY 
‘ » Holl. v. 1. 404.—Clafs sig 
order, Po ola amia Monoecia. Nat. Ord. doubtful. Mr. Brown’ 
places it at the end of his mn aurine J <e Juff.), as mere’ 
akin to that order, than to n which C; retin 
Terminalia, &c. are’ included, We thould ~aeas think it 
moft allied to the latter. - 
Gen. Ch. United flowers, Cal. Perianth fuperior, in Foes? 
dee s; the two emecanti oppofite ones fmall, =, 
> 
manent, finally. muc sch -eplaryil. "as: “ne. 
i Filaments flash thread-thaped, Be opeese = equal ‘Ta~ 
ther excerding to it 
ek vem 
quadrangular, opening at each fide» 
by 3 an oval valve from: the bottom to the top. 
; oe 
he two: enlarged, spi wing fegmente of fhe the 
above wap se its own 
“Male Gal, 4 Pm oe ep ers gl gm: 
d flowers, with 
United flowers; Cal ini taigpacidacdhle 
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