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Common in the months of May and June \ is ufually found in the 

 open path-ways near woods. It appears to be moft peculiar to a fandy 

 ©r light gravel foil. 



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 LEPTURA A Q_U A T I C A. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Green-gold. Antennae black. A tubercle on each fide of the corf- 

 let. Shells ftriated and truncated. Pofterior thighs larger with a 

 fpine on the interior fide. 



Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 637. I. — Fn. Sv. 677. 



LEPTURA aquatica fpinofa, &c. Degeer. Inf. 5. 140. 80. Tab, 4! 

 Fig. 14. 15. 



Stenocorus, &c. Geoff. Inf. 1. 229. 12. 



Cantharis* Raj. In/. 100. 1. 



Scarabjeus. Frifch. Inf. 12. 33. Tab. 6. Fig. 2. 



Donacia craffipes. Fab. Spec. Inf. 1. 245. 52. 1. 



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. 



Fabricim has altered its fpecific, as well as its generic title ; it 

 ftands in his Syftem as Donacia craffipes* 



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