INSECTA. 52 
Dorcatoma Hersst, Fasr. Antenne with first joint thick, 
conical, the following to the eighth small, the three last forming the 
greatest part of antenne, the ninth and tenth serrated internally, 
eleventh oval. Body oval, abbreviate. 
Sp. Dorcatoma Dresdense Hursst, PANZER Deutschl. Ins. Heft 26, Tab. 10, 
&c. Comp. Figures in Sturm 1. 1. Tab. 244, 245. 
Ptinus L. (in part). Antenne with eleven joints, filiform, long 
(longer than half the body), with joints sub-equal. Thorax cylin- 
drical, constricted posteriorly. Scutellum small, distinct. Feet 
long, slender, with tarsi distinctly five-jointed, the first joint 
elongate. 
Sp. Ptinus fur L., Panzer Deutschl. Ins. Heft 99, Tab. 4,ma. (Ptinus clavipes 
Panz.), GuorFr. Ins. 1. Pl. 1. fig. 6 fem. ; 1}—2'” long, the antenne of 
the male somewhat longer than body, the abdomen elongate, cylindrical, 
so that it resembles a small goat-beetle; the female with the abdomen more 
oval and wingless. This insect lives in old wood, in herbaria, in collections 
of birds and insects. GorzE has described and figured the metamorphosis 
circumstantially ; Natwrforscher, vut. 1776. s. 76—89, Tab. 11. figs. I—12, 
Gibbium Scorert. Antenne with eleven joints, filiform, longer 
than half the body, with joints obconical, sub-equal, the last oval. 
Thorax broader posteriorly. Head small, nutant, Elytra united ; 
wings none. Scutellum none. 
Gibbium scotias, Ptinus Scotias Fasr., Panzer Deutschl. Ins. Heft 5, 
Tab. 8. 
Add sub-genus Meziwm Curtis, Sturm Fawna, Ins. xu. PP. 34—38, 
Tab. 248. 
Pulinus GHorrr., Fase. Antenne with eleven joints, not 
longer than half the body, serrate or (in males) pectinate. Thorax 
posteriorly of the breadth of elytra. Wings and scutellum distinct. 
Feet short, with tarsi distinetly five-jointed. 
Sp. Ptilinus pectinicornis Fasr., Ptinus pectinicornis L., PANzER Deutsch, 
Ins. Heft 3, Tab. 7, Sturm Fauna, Ins. xt. Tab. 2 36, &e. Add sub-genus 
Xyletinus Latr., comp. Sturm ibid, Tab. 237. 
Lymexylon Fasr. Body elongate, narrow. Antenne of the 
_length of head and thorax, with eleven joints, filiform or sub-ser- 
rate. Mandibles short, thick, dentate. Maxillary palps of males 
with last joint ramose, flabellate. Head almost globose, nutant, 
