I'late XX. — Continued. 



Fig. 175. TIRESIAS SEIUIA, Fah. [F. Dermestidiu. G. Tircsias, Steph.'] (iMega- 

 toma serra, Curtis.) 



Oblong ovate, black or iiitclij- black, sparsely clothed with a short grey pubescence; antennie 

 and legs reddish yellow. Head small, linely punctate. Thorax transverse, narrowed in front, 

 rounded at the sides, base bi-sinuate, finely and sparsely punctate. Elytra oblong, rather coarsely 

 and thickly punctate. Length, l|-2 lines. 



Not common. On old trees and palings ; Kensington Gardens ; Battersea ; Richmond Park ; 

 Hampstead ; &c. 



Fig. 17G. LxV:\IPROSOM.V CONCOLOR, Sturm. [F. Lamprosomidic. G. Lumpro- 

 soma, Kirby.l (Oomorphus concolor, Curtis.) 



Ovate, convex, black, glossy, with a faint brassy tint; second joint of antennse reddish yellow. 

 Head very obscurely punctate. Thorax transverse, sides faintly rounded, base bi-sinuate : finely 

 and sparsely punctate. Elytra with oblique rows of large rather remote punctures, the tow ne.xt 

 the suture short ; interstices flat, with minute scattered punctures. Length, 1 i lines. 



Not uncommon in many places in the south; Dover; Southampton; Isle of Wight ; Hamp- 

 stead ; Finchley ; &c. 



Fig. 177. DERMESTES L.\RD.\RIUS, L., Curtis. Bacon-Beetle. [F. Dermestidse. 

 G. Dermestes, L.) 



Elongate, sub-cylindrical, black, pubescent, opaque, elytra with a. broad testaceous band at the 

 base. Head finely and very thickly punctate, with a sparse yellow pubescence ; antenna> reddish 

 brown. Tiiorax transverse, narrowed in front, sides rounded, base bi-sinuate, thickly and rather 

 finely iiunctate, with a depressed black pubescence, and numerous minute patches of yellowish-grcy 

 hairs. Scutellum with a black pubescence. Elytra thickly and finely punctate, each with a 

 broad, dentate, testaceous, thickly cinereous pubescent band at the base, in which is a transverse 

 row of three or four black spots. Length, .3-4 lines. 



Common in larders and warehouses in which bacon and skins are stored. 



Fig. 178. BYRRHUS DEXNII, Curtis. [F. Byrrliida-. G. Byrrhus, L. Pill-Beetles.] 



Ob-ovate, convex, black, clothed with a short golden-yellow pubescence. Head finely and 

 thickly punctate, with a faint transverse impression in front, and two minute fovea^ behind ; 

 antenna' reddish brown. Thorax transverse, narrowed in front, sides waved, base bi-sinuate ; 

 finely and rather thickly punctate, with a central longitudinal impressed line, a large round black 

 spot on each side in front, and three or four more or less united black jiatches on each side behind. 

 Elytra finely punctate-striate, with a transverse black patch in the middle, and each with five more 

 or less interrupted longitudinal black stripes. Legs pitchy black. Length, 4 lines. 



Rare. " In a chalk-pit at Barham, Suffolk ; " and occasionally in sand-pits on Hampstead 

 Heath. 



Fig. 179. THROSCUS OBTUSUS, Curtis. [F. ThroscidK. G. Throscus, Latr.'] 



Oblong ovate, ferruginous brown, slightly shining, clothed with a depressed yellowish-grey 

 pubescence. Head convex, punctate. Thorax transverse, narrowed in front, rounded at the sides, 

 base bi-sinuate, posterior angles acute, sparsely punctate. Elytra oblong ovat-e, finely striate, the 

 stria; very finely punctate ; interstices flat, minutely punctate. Length, ^ line. 



Very rare. On oaks; " Ensham, Oxon, and Plaistow Marshes, Essex." 

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