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result appears to be that it is exceedingly desirable to interest 

 travellers sent by the Academy, as well as other educated 

 persons in foreign countries, in procuring the material which 

 is so remarkably scarce in collections. It would scarcely be 

 profitable to visit other European cities, Hamburg perhaps 

 excepted, for the purpose of examining preserved material. 



IX. — Description of a new Species of Anthrenus from 



India {Coleoptera, Dermestidce). By Charles 0. Water- 

 house. 



For many years there have been in the British Museum 

 numerous specimens of a species of Anthrenus from the Hima- 

 layas. Recently specimens of the same species were sent 

 from the Madras Presidency for determination. I have, how- 

 ever, failed to identify the species with any one described ; I 

 therefore venture to characterize it as new. 



Anthrenus vorax. 



Subrotundatus, piceus; supra squamulis ochraceis dense tectus, 

 maculis albis notatus ; subtus dense albo squamosus ; pedibus 

 piceis, femoribus ochraceis, abdominis segmentis 2°-5 m singulis ad 

 latera gutta ochracea ornatis. 



Long. 3^ mUlira., lat. 2^ millim. 



This is a very broad species, moderately convex ; closely 

 covered above with sandy ochreous, short, ovate scales. There 

 are some whitish scales on the forehead. The scales on the 

 sides of the thorax (except at the anterior and posterior angles) 

 are white ; but there is a yellow spot in the middle of the 

 white patch ; there are a few white scales at the middle of the 

 base. The elytra have the following white marks : — an 

 elongate spot on the suture at the base ; a round spot at the 

 extreme base, a little nearer the suture than the shoulder; a 

 somewhat large triangular patch below the shoulder, generally 

 more or less connected with the sutural mark by some white 

 scales ; a small spot close to the suture, another, larger, round 

 spot (a little more removed from the suture) near the apex; 

 at the side there are two small spots — one a little behind the 

 middle, the other not far from the apex. The apical segment 

 of the abdomen is dusky in the middle. The antennae are 

 pitchy red, eleven-jointed, the three apical joints forming a 

 somewhat large, short-ovate club; the ninth joint is much 

 smaller than the tenth, and the eleventh is distinctly larger 

 than the ninth and tenth together. 



