334< MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Oblong, fuscous, pubescent: forehead white: eyes black: thorax with four 

 tubercles transversely disposed in pilose fascicles : scutellum niveous ; elytra 

 fuscous-brown, crenate-striate : with a snow-white transverse villose fascia 

 at the base, not touching the suture, and throwing off a small branch in the 

 middle anteriorly, and behind the middle are two other villose niveous spots, 

 which are sometimes united into an abbreviated fascia: legs and antenna? 

 rusty-fuscous ; femora slightly clavate. 



Larger than Pt. Fur, with the fascise on the elytra of a different form, the pu- 

 bescence shorter, femora less clavate, &c. 



Not common in the neighbourhood of London. " Hyde-park." 

 A. Cooper, Esq. " Old houses, Carlisle." — T. C. Heysliam, Esq. 

 " In houses, &c,, abundantly in Edinburgh. 11 — Dr. Lcaclt. " Far- 

 ley, Dorset. 11 — J. C. Dale, Esq. 



Sp. 5. Fur. Fusco-ferrugineus pubescens, thurace quadrifasciculato, elytris in- 

 terrupts albofasciat/s, femoribus elongatis clavatis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 

 Pt. Fur. Linne.— Wood. i. pi. i.—Steph. Catal. HO. A T o. 1417. 



Fuscous, clothed with an ashy-down: head ferruginous: eyes black: thorax 

 with four transverse fascicles : the back channelled : scutellum cinereous : 

 elytra rather dusky, with two interrupted whitish fascise, one a little bent to- 

 wards the base, the other near the apex, the disc crenate-striate : legs ferru- 

 ginous; femora elongate clavate: antennae also ferruginous, elongate in the 

 males, shorter in the females. 



Yery variable in size and colour ; being more or less ferruginous or testaceous, 

 and in some instances the elytra are immaculate. Male elongate and more 

 slender than the female. 



Extremely abundant in old houses in London, and throughout 

 the metropolitan district, and very destructive to neglected collec- 

 tions of insects and plants. " Old houses, Carlisle. 11 — T. C. Hey- 

 sham, Esq. " Swansea, not uncommon." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 6. crenatus. Obscure testaceus pubescens, thorace gibbo-submutico, elytris 



crenato-striatis immaculatis. (Long. corp. 1^ — l| lin.) 

 Pt. crenatus. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 140. No. 1418. $. Pt. Cerevisia?. 



Steph. Catal. 140. No. 1419. 



Dull- testaceous, pubescent : thorax gibbous, obsoletely bituberculated, the base 

 coarctate ; elytra crenate-striate, immaculate, clothed with an ashy pubescence: 

 antennas and legs ferruginous ; the femora subclavate. Male smaller, of a 

 paler rufo-ferruginous ; the thorax shorter, more globose; elytra oblong- 

 ovate, narrower; the femora very slender at the base, and the apex more cla- 

 vate, and the antennae somewhat longer than in the female. 



Found also in old houses in and about the metropolis : at Ilert- 



