PLATE CCXXXI. 39 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



Black. A white fpot on each wing-cafe, 



Dermestes Pellio : niger elytris pundlo albo. L'ln. Syji, Nat. 



2. 563. — Fn. Sv. 411. 

 Dermestes Pellio. Fab. Ent. Syji. i.p\ 228. 5. 



O/iv. Inf. 2. 9. II. 10. tab. 2. Jig. II, 



Schxeff. Icon. tab. 42. fig. 4. 



■nil mij>g„ |i||y|iim«i 



^ very common and deftruftive creature. It infinuates itfelf into 

 all kinds of fur, or the dried feins of animals ; and in the ftate of 

 larva, injures them confiderably. The larvje of this tribe of Infed^ 

 are numerous where they are fuffered to breed : they enter into and 

 deflroy furniture, cloathing, and even food. Some fpecies are 

 found upon the carcafes of animals ; while others, more tenacious of 

 life, penetrate harder fubftances, and refift the camphor, verdigreafe, 

 mufk, arfenic, and other drying or corroding fubftances, that prevent 

 the depredations of moft Infe6ls. One or two fpecies are in particular 

 much to be dreaded by Collediors of Natural Curiofities : they per- 

 forate the cabinet, or cafe, and when the larva is hatched, effect their 

 deflruition. In colledtions of anjnialS;, birds, infedls, and plants, 

 ^hey do great mifchief. 



F 4 FIG. 



