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GE NUS 6. G Y RI N US. Tab, VI. 
CHARACTER GENERIS. 
Antennæ clavatæ, rigidæ, capite brevîores. Oculi quatuor, duobua 
fuprà, duobus infrà. Linn., fyft. nat. p. 567. 
6th GENUS. The GYRINUS. PI. VI. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS., 
The antemiæ are elub-formed, ftiff and fhorter than the head. It 
bas four eyes; two on the upper, and two on the under part of the head. 
(The eyes appear on the upper and under fide of the head,- but it has not 
four,, as fome imagine). 
6. G E N R E. Le G Y R I N. PL VI. 
CARACTERE DU GENRE. 
Les antennes font en malTe, roides & plus courtes que la tête. Il a 
quatre yeux, deux en dciTus & deux en deflbus de la tête. (Les yeux 
s’apperçoivent en deffus et en delTous de la tête, mais il n y en a point 
quatre, comme iè rimaginent quelques uns). 
^ ^ E gyrin nageur.. 
C’efl un des plus finguliers in- 
fedes que nous ayons. Sa couleur 
efl d un beau brun très luifant tirant 
fur le noir. Les pattes font d’un 
brun jaunâtre. 
The 
G 
YRINÜS natator. Linn.. No. 
I. 
This is one of the moft fingular 
înfeds we hâve. Its colour is 
a beautiful refplendent blackifh 
brown. Its feet are of a yellowiflt 
hrown.. 
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