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APTERA: 
No wings. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Legs eight. Eyestwo, lateral. Tentacula two, jointed. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Tawny. Anus whitifh. 
Syft. Ent. 814. 24. Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 1026.27. Fn. Sv. 1973. 
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This Tick is one of thofe deteftable race of animals whofe mi. 
nutenefs fecures it from danger, while it draws nutriment from the 
blood, and frequently from the vitals of larger infeéts. Every animal 
is tormented by thofe cruel and blood-thirfty beings, varying in fize, 
in fhape, and in colour, but whether they be diflinguifhed by the 
name of lice, bugs, fleas, or mites, they fall under one point of view, 
when confidered as a peft to the focieties of other animals. In a fci- 
entific arrangement they muft of courfe be regarded as generically 
different. 
Beetles are in general infefted and feverely injured by thofe vermin. 
Ifound about a month fince one of the Scarateus Stercorarius, Cam- 
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