Anolium.] HERRIOORNIA. 191 



Hastings ; Glanvilles Wootton ; New Forest (common) ; Swansea ; Llangollen ; 

 Evesham ; Treuch Woods; Gloucester; it appears to be confiued to the South Mid- 

 land and Southern districts, as fur as is at present known. 



A. paniceum, L. (Sitodrepa panicea, Thorns. ; ArtoUum paniceum, 

 MuK). Oblong, subcylindrical, convex, of a rather shining ferruginous 

 or n ^dish-testaceous colour, clothed with greyish or whitish pubescence; 

 antennae and legs clear reddish-testaceous; eyes hairy ; thorax even, 

 narrowed in front, with the sides gradually rounded; elytra with fine 

 punctured striae, interstices rather broad, very finely punctured; legs 

 slender. L. 2-3 mm. 



The antennae are shorter in the female than in the male, and have the 

 three last joints less elongate. 



A common cosmopolitan species, occurring in old flour, bread, biscuit, skins, 

 medical stores, <tc. ; it has been introduced into many of our large towns, aud 

 gradually spread ; in Scotland it appears only to have been recorded hitherto from 

 the Forth district. 



XESTOBITJltt, Motschulsky. (Cnecus, Thorns.) 



This genus contains four European species, which may easily be dis- 

 tinguished from all our other Anobiina except Ernobius by the absence 

 of striae on the elytra; from Ernobius they may be known by their 

 stouter tibite and the broad fifth joint of the tarsi; our single species 

 X tesiffllatum is the largest of the British Anobiidas; it is not un- 

 common locally in old decaying stumps and in old buildings; its larva 

 is figured by Westwood (Classification, i. p. 269, fig. 30, 11); a 

 reference to this figure will at once show the very close resemblance it 

 bears to the Lamellicorn larvae by reason of its curved form and the 

 enlarged last segment of the abdomen. 



X. tessellatum, F. (rufo-villosum, De G.; pulsator, Schall.). A 

 large and conspicuous species, convex, subcylindrical, of a dark chocolate- 

 brown colour, thickly tessellated with patches of yellowish pubescence, 

 which gives the upper surface a variegated appearance ; the sculpture of 

 the upper surface is finely and thickly scabrous ; head rather deeply 

 sunk in thorax, eyes moderately large, convex ; antennae reddish, rather 

 short and stout; thorax about as broad as elytra, contracted in front, 

 with the anterior and posterior margins produced, central furrow 

 obsolete; scutellum semicircular; elytra parallel-sided, with traces of 

 raised lines ; legs ferruginous, stout and robust, tarsi short and broad, 

 with the fifth joint transverse. L. 5-7 mm. 



In old trees, willow, oak, &c. ; often in old wood in houses and churches ; London 

 district, common and generally distributed ; Ulting, Essex ; Suffolk ; Pegwell Bay ; 

 St. Peters ; Hastings ; Glanvilles Wootton ; New Forest ; Devon ; Swansea ; 

 Cramer ; Windsor ; Henley ; Itepton ; Needwood, Staffordshire ; Dunham Park, 

 Manchester ; not recorded from the Northumberland district ; Scotland, very rare, 

 Solway district ; " Baebills," Rev. W. Little, Murray's Cat. 



