THE 
VEGETATING MITE. 
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Generic Character. 
Eight Legs. 
Two Eyes, fituated on the hides of the head. 
Two Tentacula, jointed, and fbaped 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 Hiltory to fee it accurately figured and defcrib- 
cd. It is generally to be found on the bodies of other 
infects ; and particularly on thofe belonging to the 
beetle tribe, or fuch as in the Linn^ean language, 
belong to the clafs Coleoptera. 
The infect on which I have moft commonly obferved 
it, is the Hitter Unicolor Lin: which is a fmallifh 
coleopterous infedt, 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 
on 
