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CHAPTER CCXLir. 



Bran and Flour Bugs. (Cal.) 



{Sih-a)ni6 qiuulrinilli.-i and ,S'. su.rinamni.-^iH.) 

 Order, C'oleopteka ; Family, C'ucijid.e. 



[Living in stored grain, bran, tlour, sugar, etc. ; small red- 

 dish slender beetle.] 



These beetles are very small, none of them measurino- over 

 two lines in length. They are of a chestnut-brown color- 

 quadricolU, (Fig. 35S, Plate 4,) as its name implies, has a 

 nearly square thorax, while in surinawensis the thorax is 

 rounded, and has several teeth on the outer edge. 



In their larval state these insects usually live*" in the grains 

 of wheat or corn, which they frequently hollow out^'until 

 nothing but the hull remains. They assume the pupa state 

 within the grains. Besides wheat and corn they are also 

 found in bran, or middlings, in Hour, sugar, and 'in various 

 other situations. 



REMEDY-Use No. 120. When in grains, same remedv as 

 recommended in Chapter CCXL. 



CHAPTER CCXLIII. 



The Rawhide Beetle. (Cal.) 



(Dermestes larchaius. — Linn.) 



Order, Colboptera ; Family, Dermestid.e. 



[A brown hairy lar^■a, feeding upon rawhides, finally chang- 

 ing into a blackish-brown beetle, with a whitish bar across the 

 base of the wing-cases.] 



The larva (Fig. 359a) of this species is found to be very 

 troublesome at certain seasons of the year, in stores where 

 hides are stored. It measures about niiie lines in lensth, and 

 is covered with stiflf hairs. When full grown it assunies the 



