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AUTUMNAL ACARUS, 



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HARVEST-BUG. 



Generic Character. 



Eight Legs. 



Two Eyes, fituated on the fides of the head. 

 Two Tentacula, jointed, and fhaped like feet. 



Specific Character. 



RED GLOBOSE-OVATE ACARUS, with the 

 abdomen briftly behind. 



This troublefome infed will make itfelf fufficiently 

 known to moft people during the months of Auguft and 

 September : it is much fmaller than a common mite, 

 and can but juft be perceived upon the Ikin, to which 

 it adheres by its claws, and particularly by the two 

 ihort arms or tentacula lituated above the upper legs. 



It can fcarcely be feparated from the Ikin without 

 violence, when once it has fixed itfelf : its' motion when 

 difengaged is conliderably quick, though by no means 

 equal to that of fome other fpecies of acari. On the 

 part where it fixes, it caufes a tumor, generally about 

 the fize of apea ; fometimes much larger, accompanied 

 with a fevere itching. 



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