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cernible on the efcutcheon. The ailes font de couleur obfcure plom- 
wings are of a dark leaden colour, bée, ainfi que le delTus du ventre, 
as is the upper part of the abdomen. Les pattes font jaunâtres & le 
which, underneath is marked with deffousdu ventre àdes bandes jaunes, 
yellow bands. The feet are of a 
yellowifli caft. 
GENUS 6. NOTONECTA. Tab. IX. ' 
CHARACTER GENERIS. 
^ Roflrum inflexum. Antennæ thorace breviores. Alæ quatuor cru- 
ciato-complicatæ, anticæ coriaceæ. Pedes pofteriores pilofi, natatorii. 
Linn. lyft, nat, p. 712^ 
6th GENUS. Tîie BOAT-FLY. PL IX. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS. 
The rotlrum is infleded. The antennæ are Ihorter than the thorax. 
•The four wings, which are coriaceous from their bafe to their middle 
are folded together crofs-wife. The hind feet are hairy, and formed 
or fwimmmg. To which may be added, that the tarfi are compofed of 
articulations; ail the fix feet are equally formed for fwimming. 
The abdomen terminated by four Utile horns or appendices. 
6. GENRE. La PUNAISE-À-AVIRONS. PL IX. ' 
CARACTERE DU GENRE. 
La trompe et recourbée. Les antennes font plus courtes que le cor- 
£t. Les quatre ailes qui font coriacécs depuis la bafe jufqu’au milieu, 
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