DERMESTID/E 199 



finely and faintly rugulose though polished; sterna sparsely punctured, 

 with a fine line from the inner side of the middle coxae obliquely outward 

 to near the middle of the length, the side-pieces more closely punctate; 

 abdomen finely, rugulosely punctate. Length (9) 2.1 mm.; width 1.3 

 mm. Florida (Gulfport). 



On the metasternum the surface between the oblique lines, which 

 extend backward from the inner sides of the middle coxae, is abruptly 

 more finely and sparsely punctate than the remainder of the surface. 

 In triste Lee., the oblique lines on the metasternum are very much 

 shorter and more transverse than they are in this species. 



Anthrenus Fabr. 



There is but little to add to my former revision of this genus but 

 some to subtract, as I now think that the varietal form nevadicus 

 Csy., should be considered a true synonym of occidens; it also should 

 be stated that there is a specimen of this species in my collection 

 from southern Illinois, about forty miles below St. Louis. Carolina 

 Csy., is to be considered a synonym of castanece and not a subspecies, 

 and suffusus Csy., is a synonym of lepidus Lee. 



The following species may possibly be an importation, but I 

 cannot identify it with any European form: 



Anthrenus seminiveus n. sp. Eyes emarginate and the antennae II- 

 jointed; body briefly oval, strongly convex, with black shining integu- 

 ments, wholly concealed by a dense covering of large, oblong-oval, 

 minutely and evenly strigose scales, white, fulvous and blackish-brown 

 in color; head very small, less than a third as wide as the prothorax, the 

 dense white scales smaller than elsewhere and becoming yellowish basally, 

 the ocellus hemispherical and hyaline, perfectly transparent and glass- 

 like; the antennal club is compact, 3-jointed and broadly oval; prothorax 

 twice as wide as the median length, which is nearly one-half greater than 

 that of the strongly converging and feebly arcuate sides; base sharply 

 triangular, each of the straight sides of the angle feebly sinuate at inner 

 third; scales very dense throughout, pure white, tawny in a small trans- 

 verse central area and in two small basal areas at each side; scutellum 

 very minute; elytra laterally longer but suturally shorter, than wide, 

 broadly, evenly oval, clothed with dense white scales, becoming blackish 

 at base in a spot near the scutellum and a large medially subdivided 

 more lateral spot, in a sutural spot at a third from the base, in an irregular 

 oblique area from the middle of the sides to the suture near apex, and in 

 two small marginal posterior areas on each, the dark areas more or less 

 sprinkled with isolated fulvous scales; under surface very convex, densely 

 clothed with very uniformly white scales; legs brown, the femora densely 

 clothed on their exposed surfaces with yellowish scales. Length (cf ) 

 2.5 mm.; width 1.8 mm. District of Columbia. 



