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(117) 4. * Gyrinus analis. Anal Gyrinus. 



G. (analis) nitidus, inferne piceus ; ano, antepectoris lateribus, labio, pedibusque, rufis ; superne caruleo-niger ; elytris margine 



omni, striarumque punctulis, aneo-nitentibus ; epipleura piceo-anea. 

 Anal Gyrinus, glossy, underneath piceous ; anus, sides of the forebreast, under-lip, and legs rufous ; above blue-black ; 



elytra with both margins, and the punctures in the rows, brilliantly bronzed ; epipleura piceous-bronzed. 



Length of the body 3 lines. 



One specimen taken in Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Near the preceding, but larger, punctures of the rows larger : breast-bones 9 black; mouth, sides 

 of the forebreast, anus, and legs, rufous; the remainder of the underside of the body, piceous: 

 side-covers bronzed with a piceous tint. 



(118) 5. Gyrinus minutus. (Fabricius.) Minute Gyrinus. 



Gyrinus minutus. Fab. Suppl. 65, 8. St/st. Eleuth. i, 276, 10. Latr. Gen. ii, 61, 2. Hist. Nat. viii, 153. Gyll. Ins. 

 Suec. i, 143, 5. Steph. Illustr. Mandib. ii, 96, 3. 



Natator. Var. #. Payk. Fn. Suec. i, 239, 1 . 



. . bicolor. Oliv. Ent. iii, 41, 14, 8; t. i, /. 8. 



Kirbii. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 100, 2. 



Length of the body 2 lines. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Variety B. Body above blue-black, with the sides, particularly of the prothorax and elytra, 

 bronzed ; underneath piceous, with the lobes of the metasternum, anus, and leo-s, 

 rufous : epipleura rufo-piceous. In other respects it precisely resembles the 

 European specimens. 



- By this term are meant the pieces of which the breast is composed. See Introd. to Ent. iii, 541, 560, 573. 



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