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Cigarette-beetle; Tobacco -beetle. (Lasioderma serricorne.) Figure 107. 



This small Ptinid beetle sometimes occurs in tobacco stores, but 

 may not be fully naturalized here. In the United States and other 

 countries it often does great damage to cigars and to tobacco in all 

 other forms in warehouses. It also sometimes feeds on dried fish, figs, 

 rice, yeast-cakes, ginger, rhubarb root, red pepper, ergot, herbarium 

 specimens, silk fabrics, etc. 



Drug-store Beetle; Bread-beetle. (Sitodrepa panicea^L.) Figure 106a. 



This little beetle is nearly cylindrical and about 2.5 mm long, plain 

 light brown in color, and with striated elytra. Its larva is a great 

 pest in most countries, for it destroys all sorts of drugs of vegetable 

 and animal origin, as well as dried bread, ship biscuit, flour, meal, 

 beans, peas, coffee, chocolate, nuts, and all sorts of seeds. It is 

 partial to dog-bread. Among drugs and condiments, it is very fond 

 of red pepper, black pepper, ginger, rhubarb, orris root, wormwood, 

 anise, etc.; nor does it object to aconite, belladonna, and cantharides. 

 The larva has powerful jaws with which it can gnaw tunnels through 

 the hardest dried roots, cloth, leather, etc. It is said that it some- 

 times even penetrates tinfoil and sheet lead, if in its way. 



Gleridm. This family is represented by at least the Red-legged 

 Bacon- or Ham-beetle {Necrobia rufipes DeGeer), fig. 108, whose 

 larva often does great damage to hams and bacon. It also feeds 

 on various other dry animal products. The beetle is dull bluish, 

 with red legs; the larva is whitish, mottled with gray. It is found 

 in nearly all warm countries. 



Lampyrids; Fire-flies; Fire-beetles; Lightning-bugs; Glow-worms. 



Although no representatives of this family were in our collections, 

 it seems desirable to call attention to the efforts that have been 

 made to introduce at least one species, whether successfully or not 

 we do not know. It probably would not have appeared so early in 

 the spring as the period of our visits. 



American Fire-fly or Lightning-bug. {? Photuris Pennsylvania 

 (DeG.) Lee.) Figures 109, 170. 



Mr. J. M. Jones (Visitor's Guide, 1870) states that Gov. Lefroy 

 had recently introduced the American Fire-fly, presumably Photi- 

 nus pyralis (L.), or P. Pennsylvania (figs. 109, 170), but he did not 

 know whether it had then become naturalized. 



