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Séance du 5 Février 1908. 33 
rubro-castaneis. Thorax castaneus, punctatus, medio 
nigricanti, marginibusque lateralibus albo-tomentosis. 
Scutellum hirsutum, seu pilis albis obsitum. Elytra 
castanea subtomentosa. Corpus infra albido-pilosum, 
segmentis abdominis castaneo-maculatis, trigonoque 
concolori, in medio singulorum posito. Pedes castanei. 
« This Dermestes appears to Mr. Hope to differ from any 
sp. hitherto described. In form it resembles D. domesticus 
Steven from Siberia. Its light colour is remarquable arising 
probably from the exclusion of light, and not in this case, 
he imagines, from the effects of the drugs used in 
embalming. The thorax in many of the specimens is nearly 
black: in two of them the elytra are of a dark chesnut 
colour, almost approaching to black. From one skull more 
than 270 tolerably perfect specimens were taken ; and, from 
the remaining fragments of others, probably double that 
number lived, propagated their species, and died without 
ever seeing the light. The perfect pupae are not abundant; 
the reninants of the empty cases, however, would lead one 
to believe that the geater part of them arrived at the imago 
state some time after the process of embalming was 
completed, when as mummies, they were deposited in their 
respective mausolea. » 
Le Catalogus Coleopterorum de Gemminger et Harold, 
T. III, Munich 1868, p. 913, met déjà D. pollinctus Hope 
en synonymie de D. Frischi Kugelann. Le catalogue de 
Marseul (1889) a suivi cette manière de voir. Cette synonymie 
ne fait aucun doute. D. Frischi Kugel. est de beaucoup 
l’espece la plus commune aux environs du Caire. 
Dermestes Roei. — Diagnose de Hope et observations 
de Pettigrew: « Long. lin. 3, lat. 23. — Totum corpus 
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supra nigrum, sublus albopilosum. Antennae capitulo 
nigro caeteris articulis rubris. Thorax ater, lateribus 
thoracis cinereo-villosis. Corpus infra albo-pilosum, 
lateribus abdominis anlice macula magna ovata 
