A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



•95 



Monocrepidius lividus (Dej., t. Schwarz.) Plate xcix ; figure 13. 



This Elater, sent by Miss Hay ward in October, has the outer poste- 

 rior angles of the prothorax prolonged in a sharp spine ; elytra 

 strongly sulcate ; color blackish brown. 



Length, \2 mm . 



Dermestids; Larder Beetles ; Carpet Beetles, etc. 



Among the numerous introduced species injurious to stored pro- 

 visions are several beetles of the family Dermestidoe. Of these we 

 can record the following : Larder-beetle (Bermestes lardarius), fig. 

 171, destructive to all dry animal substances; Carpet-beetle or Buffalo- 



171 



171a 



1 li 



Figure 171. — Larder-beetle (Dermestes lardarius), xl 1 ^; and larva 

 Figure 171«. — Carpet-beetle, witb larva and pupa; after Riley, x 3 

 172. — Museum-beetle (A. verbasci) ; a, larva ; b, pupa ; e, imago ; 

 from Webster's International Dictionary. 



nat. size. 



Figure 



x 6. All 



bug (Anthrenus scrophidarice), fig. Ilia, whose larva is destructive 

 to woolens, but the imago is common on flowers in spring; Museum- 

 beetle (A. verbasci— A. varius), fig. 172, whose larva infests not 



168 



173 



a* b\f^ mW L68« 



Figure 173.— Tapestry-beetle, x %% ; a, imago ; b, larva ; after Chittenden. 

 Figure 168.— Ham-beetle (Necrobia rufipes); a. imago; x 4 ; k, larva, x 6. 

 From Webster's International Dictionary ; after Howard and Marlatt. 

 Figure 1 680.— Hard-back (IAgyrus gibbosiis), x \y 2 \ after Chittenden. 



only bird skins and dried insects, but also all sorts of dried animal 

 substances and some dry vegetable products; Black Carpet-beetle or 



