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DYTISCUS HERMANNI. 
HERMANN’S WATER-BEETLE. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER! 
Antenne fetaceous: palpi fix, andi filiform: pofterior legs formed 
for fwimming, frmged on the inner fide, and nearly unarmed with 
claws. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
ANB 
_ SYNONYMS, 
Gibbous: head and thorax ferruginous: wing-cafes truncated, at 
the bafe ferruginous. 
Dytiscus Hermann: gibbus, capite thorace elytrorumque bah 
ferrugineis, elytris truncatis. abr. Syji. Ent. 
232. 14.—Sp. Inf. 1. p. 295. 19.—Mant. 1, 
191. 24.—Gmel. Linn. Syft. Nat. 1949. 41.—= 
Mah Eat, Bote to lp. 418. 13. 
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Dytifeus Hermanni does not appear to be a very common infect 
in this country: it is of an amphibious nature, and reiides cluetly 19 
the water, like the other {pecies of its tribe. 
The fmalleft figure reprefents the natural fize. 
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