Coleopterous Family Dermestidce. 427 



Philippine Is., Madagascar, Mauritius, etc. Mr. E. E. Green 

 has found it buzzing round the trunks of Spondias magnifera 

 trees in Ceylon. 



A. glorioscp, F., is not very nearly related to the last 

 species, as Motschulsky has stated. A. plebejus, Sharp, is 

 synonymous with gloriosce. 



A. cylindricus, Kirby, by an oversight has been catalogued 

 by Dalla Torre as a synonym of A. piceus, as well as in its 

 right ])lace in Perimegatoma. 



Similarly, Anthrenus exilis, Mills., has got into the Cata- 

 logue amongst the species of Attagenus, as well as in its 

 proper place. 



A. hetus, Pering., is A. hottentottiis, Gudr. 



A. cyphonoides^ Keitter, according to specimens named by 

 him in our collection, has a produced prosternum, and must 

 be transferred to the genus Trogoderma. 



Atfagenus japOHi'ciis, Keitt., was compared by its author to 

 A. marginicoUis, and distinguished only by an almost in- 

 tangible colour-difference. A. marginicoUis and other forms 

 hitherto separated from it have since been sunk by Reitter 

 himself in his 'Catalogue of the European Coleo])tera' as 

 synonymous with the wide-ranging A. piceus, Oliv. No 

 reason remains, therefore, for retaining A. japouicus as more 

 than a race of that insect. 



The following new species belong to this genus : — 



Attagenus par due, sp. n. 



Niger, pedibua rufis, corpore supra et subtus dense flavo-cinereo- 

 pubescenti, singuli elytri maculis tribus (aliaque communi media) 

 magnis subcircularibus denudatis, maculis posticis duabus con- 

 junctis, apicalibus, majoribus, medio cinereo-pupillatis ; corpore 

 oblongo-ovali, valde convexo. 



Long. 35-4*5 mm. ; lat. 2-2-5 mm. 



Hah. Rhodesia: Salisbury [G. A. K. Marshall). 



This very distinctively marked species is entirely covered 

 with greyish-yellow hair, with the exception of seven nearly 

 round areas upon the elytra, which are quite black, bare or 

 clothed with much finer pubescence than the rest of the 

 upper surface. One of these patches is placed at the middle 

 of the elytral suture and the others are arranged in a circle 

 round it, one behind the scutellum on each side, one at the 

 outer margin and one occupying the sutural angle, the last 

 larger than the rest and having a central spot of grey- 

 pubescence. 



It is a convex insect of elongate-oval shape. The club of 



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