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PLATE CCECXCVi. 
DYTISCUS 12-PUSTULATUS, 
12-SPOT WATER-BEETLE, 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne fetaceous : palpi fix, and filiform : pofterior legs formed 
for fwimming: frmged on the inner fide, and nearly unarmed with 
claws. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SY NONY MS. 
Teftaceous : wing-cafes black, with fix teftaceous fpots on each. 
Dytiscus 12-pusTULATUS: teftaceus, elytris nigris: maculis fex 
teftaceis. Fabr. Ent. Syft. 1. a. p. 197. 50. 
Paykul. Faun. Suec. 1. 280. 29. 
Oliv. 3. 40. 31, 35. t. 5. f. 46. a. 6. 
Marfh. Ent. Brit. 1. p. 429. 12. 
Few of the Dytifci are diftinguifhed for their beauty: their colours 
in general are either black, or blackifh, varioufly gloffed wlth blueifh 
purple, or olive, or of a dull ferruginous ; and it is for this reafon, 
more efpecially than any other, that the prefent fpecies claims parti- 
cular attention : it is certainly one of the prettieft infects of its tribe. 
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