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Very abundant in houses, larders, &c, within the metropolitan 

 district: it also abounds in other parts of the country: I have 

 taken it at Shoreham, Brighton, Dover, in the Isle of Wight, &c. : 

 — its larva is particularly destructive to neglected collections of 

 natural history. " Found occasionally at Swansea." — L. W. 

 Dilkvyn, Esq. " In houses, common." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " New- 

 castle and York." — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 



t Sp. 2. trifasciatus. Ovatus, nigro-fuscus, jmlescens, elytrisfasciis tribus undatis, 

 punctoqite apicis cinereo-albidis. (Long. corp. lg — 2 lin.) 



De. trifasciatus. Fabricius. — At. trifasciatus. Steph. Catal. 95. JVo. 1013. — 

 Curtis, vii. pi. 247. 



Ovate, fuscous-black, glossy, minutely punctured and clothed with decumbent 

 hairs : thorax with the posterior margin clothed with a dense ashy-white, or 

 flavescent, down, interrupted before the scutellum; elytra with three flexuous 

 transverse strigae, composed of a pale griseous pubescence, interrupted by the 

 suture; a patch at the apex of similar hue, and also a minute round spot on 

 each side of the scutellum : beneath piceous, with yellowish pubescence : legs 

 testaceous, with the tarsi castaneous : antennae black, with the base testaceous. 



The only examples I have seen of this species are contained in 

 the collections of the British Museum, and in that of Mr. Haworth : 

 the former specimens were taken by Dr. Leach near Edinburgh, 

 and the latter, according to the Doctor's MSS., " near Chelsea." 



SECTION III. 



Contains insects of very dissimilar aspect and habits, but all of which possess 

 four palpi only: the head is not produced into a rostrum anteriorly, the tarsi 

 are almost universally pentamerous, but the antennee are considerably di- 

 versified. 



From the heterogeneous structure of the insects included in this 

 division, the latter requires to be thrown into subsections, of which 

 the one more immediately connected with the foregoing insects, or 



SUBSECTION I., 



Includes such insects as have the antenna; more or less clavate, with the apex 

 sometimes rather abruptly slender, the articulations unequal, the basal joint 

 being occasionally nearly half the entire length, the thorax frequently with a 

 groove beneath to receive the antenna;, and the legs with their parts more or 

 less compressed, and capable of being closely applied to the body, the latter 

 having usually excavations for receiving them : the sternum is mostly pro- 

 duced anteriorly, so as nearly to conceal the mouth, and the body is either 

 more or less globose and convex, or quadrate and depressed. 



