CLAS. I. ELEUT. Ptlnus , 1^3 



Larva alba frigoris patientissima . 



1$. PTINUS Llnn. Vegeer, Fahr, 

 Bruchi Sp. Geoffr. 

 Palpi quatuor squales , filiformes : 

 anteriores mnxillaj dorso ; 

 poster/orcs labii apici iaterali adnati . 

 JWandlbtila cornea , arcuata , compressa , 

 Afaxilla porrecta , membranacea , bifida . 

 Lahium porrectum , membranaceum , bifidum . 

 ^ntennA long^ •» filiformes ; articulis obconicis , 



secundo globoso . 

 Larva hexiipoda , molifs , glabra . 

 Pupa foliiculaua , immobiiis . 

 VictHS larv^ ec imaginis e plantis et animalibus 



exsiccatis . 

 Caput recracto-ittflexum , Thoraxanticecoarctatus, 



1. Ptinus ater nitidus , pedibus flavesccntibus , longi- 

 Fabr. Sp. InS. i. p. 72, eor/iis , 



In Europa hospitarur . 



MagnitHdo Ptini fnris , AntennA fliformes corpO' 



re longiores • Corpns atrnm ; nittdptm , im' 



macHUtHm . Pedes flavi plantis nigris . 



2. Pcinus testaceus , thorace quadridcntato , elytris Fur. 

 fasciis duabus albis . Fahr.. Sp. /ns. i. p. 73. 

 Lrnn, Sjst. Nat. 2. p. 566. 2. 



Ttintis rapax ovaius •, rufo-fafcus, albedine ma- 

 culatQS , thorace angulaco , villis flavis , an- 

 tennis longitudine corporis. Degeer. Ins. 4. p. 

 251. tab. 9. fig. 5. 6. 



Habitac in seminibus , in Museis frequentissi- 

 jnus , destruens herbar^ia , Insecta > Aves . 

 Occiditur arsenico ec aliimine ex Krameri ob- 

 scrvatione. L 2 Larva 



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