126 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



beneath the bark of various trees, and also occurring in houses* 

 flowers, &c. " Taken once under the bark of an elm (near 

 Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " On walls near Dulwich, 

 in June." — Mr. Ingpen. " On a gate-post near Yor^." — W. C. 

 Hewitsan, Esq. " Epping." — Mr. Doubleday. " Under willow- 

 bark, Walthamstow. v — A. Cooper, Esq. « Kew."— Rev. T. T. 

 Haverjield. 



Genus CLXXIII. — Attagenus, Latreilh. 



Antennw shorter than the thorax, with the hasal joint robust, ovate; the second 

 less robust, shorter, subglobose ; the three following slender, subquadrate ; 

 the sixth to the eighth gradually increasing, cup-shaped; the remainder 

 forming an elongate triarticulate club, the two basal joints of which are 

 short, ovate, or cup-shaped, and the terminal one extremely long and subcy- 

 lindric-ovate in the male, and ovate subattenuated in the female. Palpi 

 maxillary longer than the maxillw; the basal joint minute; the second 

 robust, as long again as the third, which is obovate, the terminal elongate- 

 ovate, attenuated to the apex: head small, deflexed, produced anteriorly: 

 thorax trilobate behind, the posterior angles and central lobe acute: body 

 oval: legs short: femora and tibia compressed; the latter spinose externally; 

 tarsi with the basal joint minute, the second in the four posterior legs 

 elongate. 



Attagenus has the terminal joint of the maxillary palpi consider- 

 ably elongate and attenuated to the apex, with the second joint 

 much longer than the third; the club of the antennae is very dissi- 

 milar in the sexes, the apical joint being elongate in both, and 

 remarkably long in the male. 



Sp. 1. Pellio. Ovatus, niger, pubescens, antennarum basi rufescente, elytris 



pitncto medio albo. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 

 Der. Pellio. Linne.—Don. vii. pi. 231. /. 3.— At. Pellio. Steph. Catal. 95. No. 

 * 1014. 



Ovate, black, shining, thickly and minutely punctured, pubescent: thorax 

 with three white pubescent spots at the base, one at each angle, and the 

 other in the lobe before the scutellum: elytra somewhat piceous or slightly 

 castaneous, with a snowy-white pubescent spot on the back, near the suture : 

 body beneath pitchy-black, clothed with a yellowish pubescence : legs rufo- 

 piceous, with the tarsi paler. 



The elytra are slightly variable in colour, being more or less piceous, castaneous 

 or testaceous ; and they have frequently an obscure streak of whitish pubes- 

 cence on the margin, near the base. 



