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Dr Leach's Classification of the Notonectides.

Long. Corp. 1/2 unc.

Habitat in aquis stagnantibus vulgatissime.

All authors have considered this species as Notonecta striata of Linné, although it will not agree with his character. It is figured by Geoffroy and Panzer, and is of the former author the species serving as the type of the genus Corixa.

Spec. 8.Corixa affinis.

C. flavida, thorace lineolis transversis numerosissimis nigris, elytris nigro-irroratis: dorso pernigro; lateribus postice dentatoflavis.

Habitat in stagnis prope Plymouth haud infrequens.

C. Geoffroyi duplo minor.

IV. Some