THE 
GREAT NEPA. 
Generic Character. 
Beak inflected. 
Antenna; Ihort. 
Wings four; clofing in a croffed direction; coi 
ceous on their upper part. 
Feet anterior cheliform ; the remaining four 
formed for walking. 
Specific Character, &c. 
NEPA with brown wings variegated with yellow. 
The great brown NEPA or Water-Scorpion. 
The great Surinam NEPA. 
This infedt, which the plate rcprefents in its na¬ 
tural fize, is by far the largefl: fpecies yet difcovered. 
It is a native of South America, and feems to have 
been firft figured by the celebrated Madam Merian, 
who has introduced it into her Hiftory of Surinam 
infedts. It is an inhabitant of frelh waters, and 
lives by preying on the fmaller water infedts, &c. 
In fize it fometimes exceeds the figures here repre- 
fented. 
