Coleopterous Family Dermestidse. 445 



Genus Antheenus. 



Anthrenus vari'us, F., was clescribed in Ent. Sysf. i. p. 264. 

 Tlie reference j^^iven in both Gemminger and Hiuold's and 

 Dalla Torre's Catalogues (Syst. Ent. j). GO) is to Byrrhus 

 var/us, F., an entirely different insect, now known as 

 Cyiilus sericeus, Forst. 



A. vorax, Wat., is synonymous with A. fasciatus, Herbst, 

 which has a very wide range. 



A. lepidus, Lee, and occidens, Casey, seem to me to be 

 varieties of the protean and almost universal species A. piin- 

 pin ell Of, F. 



Reiiter's type of A. suhclaviger is apparently the female. 

 Besides specimens from his locality (Aden), we have speci- 

 mens from Calcutta (tnken in the Museum con)pound). The 

 species has been sent also from the N. W. Himalayas (taken 

 in flowers of Castanea vesca) and the Punjab. In tiie males 

 the anteniise are longer tiian in the females and the club 

 consists of two joints only instead of three. 



Anthrenus (subgen. Florilinus) sinensis, sp. n. 



Brunneus, squamis breviter triangularibus vestitus, ventralibus 

 griseis, dorsalibus brunneis et griseis, pronoti basi ab his toto 

 tecto, elytrorum fasciis duabus fere rectis maculaque apicab, 

 antennis 7-articulatis, clava solida, gracili, maris quam articulia 

 prsecedentibus multo longiori. 



Long. 2' 5-3 mm. 



Hah. N. China : Tientsin {F. M. Thomson). 



A long series of specimens received from Mr. Thomson 

 show constant differences trom A.musceorum, L., to which it 

 is exceediiigly close. It is rather narrower in shape and the 

 average size is a little smaller. The scales are of the same 

 short triangular form, but a little longer in A. sinensis, and 

 those forming the background are not black but a dull brown. 

 The pale patches of scales at the sides of the pronotura, 

 which are separated in A. muf^ceorum by a well-marked 

 interval, unite in A. siamensis upon the basal lobe, and the 

 fasciae of the eljtra are less irregular in outline. The 

 antenna consists of seven joints, the first two globular, 

 followed in the male by four equal minute transverse joints 

 and a slender fusiform solid club considerably longer than all 

 the rest together ; in the female, by two small but slightly 

 elongate joints, two progressively longer, dilating towards 

 the extremity, and a club-joint about as long as the three 

 piecediiig ones together. 



