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BOOT BEETLE. 



If the S. African Cetonias fly in the bright sunshine, 

 their numbers (in garden treatment, at least) might be 

 reduced as they are in England by catching them with 

 nets on poles ; but otherwise the only methods of 

 prevention appear to be those previously mentioned for 

 the corn or plant chafers. 



FAM. ANOBIIDJE. 

 ANOBIUM PANICEUM, Linn. 



Dermestes paniceus, Linn. Fauna Suec. p. 145. 

 Anobium minutum, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. p. 238. 



FIG. 8. Piece of a boot injured by maggot of Anobium paniceum. 



Paste Beetle ; " Boot Beetle." 



Oblong, convex; reddish brown, and closely covered 

 with very fine short grey pubescence. The head is 

 deflexed and concealed beneath the front margin of the 

 thorax ; the antennae have the basal joint rather large, 

 the second smaller, the six following very small, and the 

 apical three very large and rather more than twice as 

 long as broad. The thorax is very convex and finely 



