The present arrangement of the British species will be found 

 more natural than that of the Guide, but the original numbers 

 are retained to prevent confusion in reference. 



3. A. pertinax L. — Curt. B. E. pi. 387. — striatum F. — Pz. QQ. 4. — Fagi 



Hub. var. 



Stewart says, after Linnjeus, that when taken, this insect contracts 

 itself, and remains motionless as if it were dead, nor can any torture force 

 it to move. It is destroyed by the Tlianasimus formimrius, pi. 398. The 

 common A. striatum is so often named 'pertinax,' in consequence of Fa- 

 bricius having reversed the names, that I am happy in giving a figure of 

 the true one, which is very rare in England ; and for this opportunity I 

 am indebted to the liberality of T. Marshall, Esq., who took specimens the 

 beginning of April, beneath the bark of a Pollard oak near Bridgenorth ; 

 it has also been captured at Windsor. 

 2. A. rufipes i^. — brunneum Ol.2.nAQ.pl.2. f,& ? — cylindricus Mar. var. 



June, decayed oak trees, and in houses. 



4. A. striatum Oliv. pi. 2./. 7. — pertinax F. — Pz. 66. 5. 



May, June, July, in old houses in abundance, sometimes reducing 

 chairs, tables, picture-frames, books, &c. almost to powder. 



6. A. tessellatum F. — Pz. 6Q. 3. — pulsator Schel. 



June, rotten wood, especially oak, lime, and willow. December, in 

 abundance upon an old post at Ditchingham in Norfolk, where I heard 

 and saw the beating which was performed with the head; and it is said to 

 be the male only that uses this call (see Int. to Entom. vol. ii. p. 387.) Mr. 

 Dale informs me that this species is very destructive to the roof of King's 

 College Chapel, Cambridge, that the specimens are very large, and I think 

 I have heard that they even eat through the sheet-lead. 

 1. A. castaneum F. — Ol.pl. l.f. 2. — excavatum Kugel. 



June and July, park and other paling, and hedges. 



8. A. molle Linn. — OL 2. n. \6. pi. 2./. 8. 



This is said to be destructive to dried plants. I found it on a boat- 

 house in Norfolk, under some willows. 



7. A. Abietis F.—Pz. 66. 7-— Isvis Mar. 84. 9- 

 Inhabits the cones of pine-trees. 



5. A. paniceum Linn. — Fab. — Pz. 66. 6. — rubellus Mar. $ . — tenuicornis 



Mar. <?. 

 Most abundant I believe in June, and destroys the floors of rooms. In- 

 deed this is a most extraordinary little insect ; I have seen tinfoil perfo- 

 rated by the larvae. Mr. Waller Clifton informs me that they will live 

 upon black wafers, which they reduce to powder. Dr. Boott gave me a 

 bottle of Cayenne pepper, on which they fed and multiplied until it be- 

 came a mass of larvse, pupae, and beetles ; and Mr. Mathews sent me 

 some interesting observations relating to their destruction of a great por- 

 tion of his herbarium. But the most serious injury they commit is by 

 breeding in ship-biscuit, by which means it is frequently rendered unfit 

 for use. 

 290^. OcHiNA Zieg. — Crioceris Marsh. 



9. A. ptinoides Mar. 228. 23. — Hederse Mull.? — Distinguished from Ano- 



bium by the antennae, which are similar to those of Serrocerus 

 (pi. 375.) 

 June, at Coombe, New Forest, Glanville's Wootton, on an alder, Mr. 

 Dale ; and once met with in abundance on an old ivy-tree in Suffolk, by 

 Mr. Kirby. 



The Plant is Parietaria officinalis (Pellitory-of-the-Wall). 



