504 CLAVICOKNIA — DERMESTIDAE. 



at base. Femora clouded with white hairs. L. 3 — 3f 1. 

 Common. D. murinus, Lin. 



2. Antennae broMai-red. 



Black, dull. Head and thorax covered with brownish- 

 yellow hairs, wdth an admixture of white, and finely 

 checkered with black ; scutellum thickly covered with 

 yellowish-wdiite hairs ; elytra clouded with bluish-gray 

 hairs ; under-side thickly covered with whitish hairs with 

 first abdominal segment black on each side at base, next 

 three segments and breast with a black spot at sides, last 

 segment black, with two white spots at base, femora with a 

 ring of white hairs. Thorax rather longer than in D. 

 murinus. L. 3 1. Common. D. undulatus, Brahm. 



h. Elytra black, with a common brownish-yellow band 

 from near base almost to middle, marked with tliree 

 black spots. 



Black, dull ; antennae brown-red. A tuft of bristles on 

 both third and fourth abdominal segments of male. L. 3 

 — 3f 1. Common. D. lardarius, Lin. 



Atfaf/oiifs. 



A. Vj\\V\-,\ bliU'k or Itrown, witli ;t white spot in iniddK', 

 near snLure. 



P)Uic;k ; thorax with three small white spots at base ; an- 

 tennae and legs brown-red, clul) of former and femora 

 darker. Pubescence on upper-side black, on under-side 

 .gray. Last joint of antennae in male fully as long as all 

 the rest. L. 2 — 2f 1. Common. A. 2Jcllio, Lin. 



S. Elytra unicolorous. 



Black ; elytra sometimes ln'own ; antennae and legs 

 yellowish-red. Pubescence on ujtjicr-side black, on under- 

 side yellowish-gray. Last joint of antennae in male not 

 quite so long as all the rest. L. 1^ — 2 1. Very rare. 



A. megatowa, Fab. 



C. Elytra pitch-brown, with three curved bands, a spot 

 near apex and another near scutellum covered with 

 whitisli hair. 



Ovate. Pitch-brown, shiny ; with recumbent pubescence, 

 l)unctuation fine ; posterior margin of thorax (except in 

 middle) whitisli ; legs and base of antennae red-yellow. 

 L. 1| — 2 1. iiare. A. verhasci, Lin. 



