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[114.] 162. Attagenus pellio Z-w/z.- -Length of body 2^ lines. 

 Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall. 



'This species, though particularly destructive to furs, is to be met with 

 in other animal matters, and is very common in houses. De Oeer 

 describes its larva as having a very long bod}- covered with a hard, shining 

 skin of a reddish-brown colour and hairy ; as having six legs, and the 

 posterior extremity terminated by a long remarkable tail, formed of rufous 

 hairs as long as the body, and placed horizontally in the same line. He 

 says that their motion is gliding, but by snatches. 



The American specimen, which is a male, is considerably larger than 

 ni}- British ones and blacker : but in other respects it precisely resembles 

 them. The species may generally be known by its black or dark-piceous 

 colour, covered, especially underneath, with decumbent whitish or ciner- 

 eous hairs. The stalk of -the antennae, and the tarsi, are testaceous, and 

 the last joint of the former, in the male, is longer than the two first and 

 cylindrical : the prothorax at the three posterior angles has three white 

 spots formed of hairs, and the elvtra are in the middle near the suture. 

 [Taken in Canada]. 



[115.] 163. Dermestes lardarius Linn. --Taken in Nova Scotia by 

 Capt. Hall ; in Massachusetts by Mr. Drake. I -atreille observes that 

 this insect is found in every quarter of the old world. [We may add. in 

 the new as well. It is a great pest to collectors in Canada.] 



164. Dermestes dissector Kirby. — Length of body 3^3 lines. 

 Taken by Dr. Bigsby in Canada. [Apparently identical with Say's D. 

 nubilus (Ent. Works, i. p. 300), which differs little, if at all. from D. 

 caninus Germ. Not uncommon in Canada.] 



[116.] 165. Byrrhus PICIPES Kirby.- Length of body 3* lines. 

 A single specimen taken in Lat. 54 . 



Body black, covered with short decumbent hairs. Scutellum velvetty- 

 black : elytra with a pair of deep black interrupted stripes terminating in 

 a transverse abbreviated posterior band of the same colour : legs piceous. 

 [As this specific name is preoccupied, Le Conte has named the species 

 B. Kirby i. It is taken in Canada from Quebec to the north shore of 

 Lake Superior]. 



[117.] 166. Bvrrhus concolor Kirby. — Length of body 3 lines. 

 Two specimens taken in Lat. 54°. 



This nearly resembles B. picipes, but it is much smaller, the prothorax 

 is more distinctly channelled, the elytra have no black band, and the legs 

 are black. [Supposed by Le Conte to be a variety of Cytilus varius Fab.] 



