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found in flowers, and is very active on the wing. Like the following genus, it 

 retains all the characters of the typical Mycetophagida. 



158. Typhaea fumata. 

 T. oblonga testacea subnitida valde pubesceus, prothorace traosverso, elytris rugulosis piloso-seriatis, 



antennis pedibusque vix pallidioribus. 

 Long, coi-p. lin. 1;^. 



Dermestes fumatus, Linn. Sjst. Nat. ii. 56i (1767) . 



Mycetophagiis fumatus, G-yll. Ins. Suec. iii. 399 (1813). 



Typlima testacea et tomentosa, Stepb. 111. Brit. Unt. iii. 71 (1830). 



fumata, Ciirtis, Srit. Enf. xv. 702 (1838). 



, Sturm, Beutsch. Fna, xix. 35. tab. 318 (1847). 



Habitat Maderam, mibi non obvia ; nuperrime a Dom. Rousset communicata. 



T. oblong, testaceous, very slightly shining, and densely clothed with long and pale pubescence. 

 Head and prothorax deeply punctured : the latter a little narrowed iu front, but wide behind, 

 where it is of the same breadth as tlie elytra, and closely appUed to them. Elytra rather rough 

 or wrinkled, obscurely punctured, the punctm-es having merely a very slight tendency to be 

 disposed in rows ; and with the pubescence very distinctly seriate. AntenruE and legs a httle 

 paler than the rest of the surface. 



Apparently very rare (although abvmdant throughout the whole of Europe), 

 having hitherto entkely escaped my o\vn observations in the Madeka Islands. 

 The only specimens which I have seen have been lately communicated to me by 

 M. Rousset, to whom we are indebted for many additions to the entomological 

 fauna of the group. There is a good deal of confusion regarding its synonymy, 

 o^\dng partially perhaps to the Linnsean description and type not altogether 

 tallying. That the Dermestes fumatus is really however the present insect is 

 evident from a specimen still in existence, with the original label attached to it, in 

 the Linnaean collection, — as was also remarked by Gyllenhal, on the au.thority of 

 Kii'by, who, it would seem, likewise noticed the discrejmncy between the diagnosis 

 and its representative. The Dermestes fumatus of Marsham, although supposed 

 both by liimself and others to be the Linnaean species, is the Mycetcea hirta of 

 European cabinets, — Marsham having apparently transcribed Linnaeus's description 

 and referred a wronsr insect to it. 



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Genus 69. LITARGUS. (Tab. IY. %. 5.) 



Erichson, Nat. der Lis. Deutscli. iii. -±15 (1848). 



Corpus parvum, eUipticum, Isete picto-variegatum : prothorace transverso, postice lato elytris arete 

 applicato : alis amplis. Antenna capitis prothoracisque vix longitudine, clavatse pilosfe, articulis 

 primo, secundo et tertio longitudine subsequalibus (primo leviter robustiore, tertio graciliore 

 subclavato), quarto ad octavum longitudine decrescentibus latitudine vix crescentibus, reliquis 



