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rafter; and in the Species Infeclorum Fahricius has followed the 

 fame arrangement. Though with the afliftance of a microfcope we 

 may difcover in this, and other fpecies, the exacl number of the 

 articulations defcribed, yet they are too minute to ferve as part of a good 

 fpecific character, which mould, if poflible, be felefted from the 

 moll confpicuous and peculiar parts of the infecl. Fabricius feems 

 to have been aware of this in his laft work, Entomologia Sy ftematica * ; 

 and has made a very judicious alteration; though it appears lingular 

 for a fyftematic writer to change " Aratennis filiformibus articulis. 

 7 — 9." for " Antennis inarticulatis, extrorfum craflioribus." 



* Tew. 2. p. 109. 18. 



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