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: 7 DY-FISCUS~ MINUTUS, 
CoLEOPTERA, 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Antennz taper, or clavato perfoliated, Feet villous and broad, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Yellow-brown, Shells ftriated, and marked with ‘fhort longitudinal 
ftripes of black. . 
Fabri Spec. inf I. 297. ore 
Chryfomela Minuta. Linn. Syf. Nat. 
Dytifeus Minutus. Linn. Sy/?, Nat. 2. 667.23.—Fa. Su. mk 
‘Dytifcus Ruficollis. Degeer. Inf 4. 404. 18. Tab. 16. Fig. ge 
Sg i Nb ARIA ee Secor 
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Linnzeus placed this Infe&tamong the CHRYSOMELA, under the — 
fpecific name Minuta ; but Degeer configned it to the Diriscus. 
- genus; and gave it the name Ruficollis; Asia DyTiscus it alfo ap- 
peared i in the Syftema Nature; and Fabricius, as . well. as other late , 
Entomologitts, have determined it to that genus, either calling, it, 
Minutus, or after Degeer, Ruficollis, 
At Fig. I. is reprefented its appearance when magnified, and at 
Fig, II, the natural fize. 
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