122 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



pubescent, sprinkled with small tufts of cinereous hairs : elytra finely and 

 thickly punctured, with very obsolete rudiments of strife, the base with a 

 broad pale fascia, composed of a dense cinereous pubescence, in which are 

 three brownish or black denuded spots, and on the posterior margin is a 

 somewhat flexuous cinereous patch: body beneath pitchy-black, with the 

 breast densely and the abdomen sparingly clothed with a shining cinereous 

 down : legs pitchy-black : antennae rusty-piceous, with the club dusky. 



When the pubescence is removed, the anterior portion of the elytra is rufes- 

 cent. 



The larva is of a whitish-brown above, white below, furnished with long hairs, 

 and two scaly hairs on the last segment : — it infests skins, &c. 



Extremely abundant in Louses, larders, &c. throughout the 

 metropolitan district; and not unfrequently found in neglected 

 boxes of insects : also in dead bodies, dunghills, and amongst heaps 

 of dried bones. " Under garbage at Swansea, not uncommon." — 

 L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Bottisham, common ." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 2. murinus. Obhngus, niger, supra cinereo marmoratus, scutellofulvescente, 



subtus niveus, antennis nigris. (Long. corp. 3—4 lin.) 

 De. murinus. Linne. — Samouelle, pi. i. f. 4. Steph. Catal. 96. No. 1016. 



Oblong, black, pubescent, marbled above with cinereous; the head with a few 

 griseous hairs intermixed : thorax very convex, thickly ornamented with 

 transverse undulated bluish-ash characters and two distinct remote fulvescent 

 spots behind the middle : scutellum fulvescent: elytra obsoletely punctated 

 and very obscurely striate, pubescent, marbled like the thorax with bluish- 

 ash : breast and abdomen snowy- white : antennae and legs black, the femora 

 with a snowy ring. 



The fulvescent scutellum, and the bluish-ash pubescence of the thorax and 

 elytra, distinguish this species. 



Not uncommon throughout the metropolitan district, frequenting 

 the same haunts as the last: found also in Glamorganshire, Nor- 

 folk, Devonshire, &c. " Common (near Swansea) in dead ani- 

 mals, and particularly in half-dried hawks and vermin which. 

 have been nailed up by gamekeepers." — L. W. Dilkvyn, Esq. 

 " In carcases, common, at Bottisham, appearing early in the 

 spring. 11 — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 3. laniarius. Brevis, convexus, ater, glaber, subtus albidu-sericeus, antennis 

 parvis rufo-piceis. (Long. corp. 3^ lin.) 



De. laniarius. Illiger.— Steph. Catal. 96. No. 1017. 



Short, convex, black, glabrous : head punctate: thorax large, convex, thickly 

 punctured: scutellum black: elytra thickly and finely punctured, immacu- 

 late: breast and abdomen clothed with a dense silken whitish pubescence, the 



