Ranatra

Another insect hunter is the singular Ranatra fusca (Fig. 260).

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

When I heard this I dropped into the water; but somehow or other I turned over very clumsily, and, like the _Ranatra_, I fell through into the colander, and was transferred to a pickle-jar.

Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

That greedy _Ranatra_, who eats so much, and never looks a bit the more solid for his meals, crept up a reed and sunned his wings; the water-gnats skimmed and skated about, measuring the surface of the water with their long legs; the "boatmen" shot up and down till one was quite giddy, showing the white on their bodies, like swallows wheeling for their autumn-flight.

Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863