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and obtuse, or rounded. Palpi filiform, short, the terminal joint elongate, 

 truncate : head small, deflexed, retractile : thorax trilobed behind : body or- 

 biculate-ovate or subovate, depressed, rather flat above, convex beneath, 

 coloured with deciduous scales : legs short, compressed, closely applied to the 

 body during repose ; the tarsi exposed. 



The Anthreni may be at once distinguished from the insects of 

 the two following genera by having the surface adorned with 

 coloured scales, exclusively of the difference in the structure of the 

 antennae, &c, which are capable of being concealed in grooves, 

 formed for their reception, beneath the sides of the thorax, which 

 is considerably produced in the centre before the scutellum : the 

 larvae infest animal substances, dunghills, &c, and the imago is 

 usually found on flowers. 



Sp. 1. Verbasci. Nigro-fuscus, supra squamis luteisfere tectus, ebjtris fasciis 



tribus albis, tibiis nigricantibus. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 By. Verbasci. Linne. — An. Verbasci. Steph. Catal. 96. No. 1020.— An. Scro- 



phularise. Samouelle, pi. 2.f. 4? 



Brown-black : head clothed with luteo-testaceous scales on the forehead : the 

 thorax entirely covered with scales, which are luteous on the disc, with a 

 central streak anteriorly, a spot before the scutellum, and the lateral margins 

 broadly white : elytra nearly covered with luteous scales, irrorated with 

 black, with three white fasciae, the first interrupted reaching obliquely from 

 the scutellum to the margin; the second flexuous in the middle; and the 

 third, lunate, towards the apex : the body clothed beneath with ashy- white 

 scales, with the margin of the abdomen spotted with black : legs black, with 

 the tarsi somewhat fuscous : antennae black. 



Not common in Britain; found occasionally within the metro- 

 politan district, having taken two specimens only during the period 

 which I have collected. I suspect, therefore, that the following 

 localities refer to An. Musseorum, which species has been generally 

 confounded with the present in the London cabinets. " Bottisham." 

 — Rev. L. Jenyns. " On the flowers of umbelliferous plants, not 

 common (near Swansea).' 1 — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Near York." 

 — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. " Epping." — Mr. Doubleday. 



Sp. 2. Musaeorum. Nigro-fuscus, ferrugineo irroratus, thoracis lateribus elytro- 

 rumque fasciis squamoso-griseis, tibiis j'errugineis. (Long. corp. 1 — 1| lin.) 



By. Musaeorum. Linne.— An. Musa;orum. — Shaw, vi. pi. 13. — Steph. Catal. 96. 

 No. 1022. 



Fuscous-black, irrorated with ferruginous scales ; thorax with the disc sparingly 

 dusted with testaceous scales, the posterior angles and the central lobe densely 



