THE 



VEGETATING MITE. 



Generic Character. 



Eight Legs. 



Two Eyes, fituated on the fides of the head. 

 Two Tentacula, jointed, and fhaped like feet. 



Specific Character. 



CRUSTACEOUS REDDISH or YELLOW- 

 ISH-BROWN ACARUS, convex above, 

 flat beneath. 



That curious little infect, the acarus vegetans of 

 Linnaeus, or the vegetating mite, being, on account 

 of its minutenefs, lefs attended to than many others of 

 its genus, it cannot be unacceptable to the admirers of 

 Natural Hiftory to fee it accurately figured and defcrib- 

 ed. It is generally to be found on the bodies of other 

 infedts ; and particularly on thofe belonging to the 

 beetle tribe, or fuch as in the Linn^ean language, 

 belong to the clafs Coleoptera. 



The infecl: on which I have moft commonly obferved 

 it, is the Hifter Unicoior Lin : which is a fmalliffi 

 coleopterous infecl:, frequently feen in gardens in the 

 early part of the fpring, and which at that feafon fel- 

 dom fails to have fome of the vegetating mites either 



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