ts 4 
PLAT EDR. 
DYSTISCUS PUNCTULATUS. 
DOTTED BOAT-BEETLE, 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne fetaceous: feelers fix, filiform: hind-legs formed for 
fwimming, fringed on the inner fide, and nearly unarmed with 
claws, 
- SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND . 
SYNONYMS. 
Black: wing-cafes with three rows of dots: fhield of the ae 
margin of the thorax, and wing-cafes yellow. 
DytTiscus PUNCTULATUS. niger clypeo thoracis elytrorumque 
margine albis, elytris ftriis tribus pun¢tatis. 
Geoffr. Inf. I. 185. [.—Le Ditique brun a 
bordure. 70. 
Dytiscus punctuLatus. Fabr. Ent. Syf. I. a. 188. 4. 
VoL. XV, M DyTiscus 
