Coleopterous Family Dermestidfe. 443 



Tliis is a very convex, subglobiilar insect, densely sculp- 

 tured and clothed above with rather long and coarse ashy- 

 grey hair. The clothing is long and shaggy upon the pro- 

 notum, and its posterior lobe, which is truncated, has two 

 backward-pointing brushes or tufts. Upon the elytra the 

 hairs are longer and closer at the front margin, the apex, and 

 the middle. At the latter part they form a transverse bar, 

 widest at the suture, and tapering at each end without 

 reaching the sides. 



Cryptorrhopalum scutellare, sp. n. 



Rufum, a^qualiter minute punetatum et flavo-sericeum ; parvum, 

 breviter ovatura, couvexum, pronoti lobo postico valido, recta 

 truncate ; scutello nudo, nitido, impunctato ; antennarum clava 

 brevi, articulis duobus fere sequalibus. 



Long. 2 mm. 



Bab. W. Indies: Mustique I. (Grenadines). 



Two specimens were obtained by Mr. H. H. Smith. 



A minute insect, regularly oval in shape and very convex, 

 closely and uniformly clothed with minute decumbent greyish 

 or yellowish-grey silky hairs, but with the scutelluni free 

 from hair and punctures and very shining. The posterior 

 lobe of the pronotum is squarely truncated, and is also smooth 

 and shining at its extremity, and the hairs at its base are 

 divided, so as to present the appearance of two tufts. 



Anthrenocerus, gen. no v. 



Corpus compactum, setosum, baud squamosum. Pedes gracileg. 

 Prosternum antice productum ad capitis receptationem, postice 

 angustum, mesosternum toto bisectans, lateraUter profunde exca- 

 vatum ad antennarum receptationem. Antennae crasste, stipite 

 brevi, articulis valde transversis, compactis, clava 3-articulata, 

 magna, cylindrica, articulo primo et tertio longitudiue fere ad 

 latitudinem sequali, secundo transverso. 



Type, Anthrenus australis, Hope. 



This genus is intermediate between Trogoderma and 

 Anthrenus, the antennae being of the short massive type 

 characterizing the latter, and the large, compact, three-jointed 

 club exactly fitting a deep sharply defined cavity provided 

 for it in the anterior half of the side of the prosternum. All 

 the joints fit very closely together, the foot-stalk is short, the 

 club long, abrupt, and of nearly equal width throughout. 

 The head fits closely against the prosternal plate, but is less 

 deeply sunk in the prothorax than in Anthrenus in the 



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