202 MALACODERMATA. 
2. Anobium paniceum. 
Anobium paniceum, Linn. Fn. Suec. 1761, p. 145; Panz. Fn. Germ. p. 46.6; Mauls. Ann. Soc. Linn. 
Lyon, x. 1863, p. 82; Thoms. Skand. Col. v. p. 166. 
Anobium obesum, Melsh. Proc. Ac. Phil. ii. p. 309°. 
Anobium tenuistriatum, Say, Journ. Ac. Phil. v. p. 173°. 
Hab. Evrore; Norra America! ?.—Mexico, Cordova, Puebla (Sallé). 
Found feeding on various substances, and carried about with commerce. It can 
hardly be considered indigenous. . 
MICRANOBIUM. 
Corpus parvum. Caput declivum in thoracem haud profunde receptum. Antenne 11-articulate, articulis tribus 
ultimis elongatis, clavam laxe formantibus, tertio quam secundus longiore, 4° ad 8™ fusiformibus. Oculi 
fortiter granulati. Tarsi distincte 5-articulati, articulo quarto valde bilobo. Abdominis segmentum 
secundum longitudine tribus apicalibus equale. 
The little Anobiads for which I propose this generic name are of two types—one 
resembling a small Cis; the other is rather more closely like a very small Anobiwm 
striatum. 'They agree very nearly in their structural details; and the length of the 
second ventral segment of the abdomen seems to me a very important character 
common to both of them. The first segment is very short, with a broad intercoxal 
process. The tarsi are long, and could not be received into the tibie; but the legs 
themselves in repose are very closely retracted. 
1. Micranobium exiguum. 
Piceum, subnitidum, breviter sat dense pubescens, subcylindricum, antennis pedibusque ferrugineis, oculis 
prominulis. Long. 1-13 millim. 
Hab. GuatTEMALA, San Gerdnimo (Champion). 
Pitchy or rufous-brown above, darker beneath; the head, thorax, and elytra are 
clothed with a short depressed yellow pubescence. The eyes are prominent, and the 
head is exserted. ‘The thorax is not longer than wide; its margins are a very little 
expanded ; dark pitchy brown, and sometimes rufous in front. The elytra usually 
lighter in colour than the head and thorax, impunctate, and without strie, of the same 
width as the thorax. The femora are dark, pitchy; the tibie and tarsi rufous. The 
three terminal joints of the antenne are dark; they are not very long, but form a lax 
club not equal in length to the basal portion. 
2. Micranobium pulicarium. (Tab. X. fig. 14.) 
Nigrum, opacum, elytris striatis parum nitidis, prothorace antice angusto compressoque, lateribus paululum 
explanatis ; antennis pedibusque rufis. Long. 14~2 millim. 
» Hab. Guaremata, Duefias, San Geronimo, Balheu, Capetillo (Champion). 
