The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &c together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . fe black, with yellow marks. Beneath black. Syjl. Ent. 231. 6. Lhin. Syji. Nat. 2. 666. 13.—i^«. Sv, Inf. I. 189. fajciatus^ &c. Degeer Inf. 4. 397. Raj. Inf. 94. 3. Inf. I^. p. 13. Tab. £s. Inf. 2.
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, economy, &c together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . fe black, with yellow marks. Beneath black. Syjl. Ent. 231. 6. Lhin. Syji. Nat. 2. 666. 13.—i^«. Sv, Inf. I. 189. fajciatus^ &c. Degeer Inf. 4. 397. Raj. Inf. 94. 3. Inf. I^. p. 13. Tab. £s. Inf. 2. Aquat. I. Tab. 3. Fig. 7,Bradl. Nat. Tab. 26. Fig. 2. Icon. Tab. 3. Fig. Nomencl. i. Tab. 5. i^z^, 3. 4. 5. Tab. 7. Fig. 6. 7. It is fufpe<Sled that the Dytiscus Sulcatus is only the female of theDytiscus Cinereus, and by no means a diftindl fpecies, althoughLinnaeus confidered it as fuch. It is common in the month of Mayy and thence is found throughoutthe Summer. It pafles through the different changes, and exifts inthe adult ftate in the water; and like others of the fame tribe, devoursthe fmaller kinds of aquatic Infeft, or tender vegetables. It dartswith aftoniOiing fwiftnefs in fearch of its prey by the afliftance of itshinder legs, which are well contrived for that purpofe. PLATE 68. 1
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