1894.] 85 



TSERMOBIA FURNORUM, EOVELLI, and LUPISMODES INQUILINA, 



NEWMAN. 

 BY EGBERT McLACHLAN, P.R.S., &c. 



Mr. C. 0. "Waterhouse has just sent me the following note : — 

 " "When I was at Hastings in 1877, packing Dr. Bowerbank's collection 

 of sponges, I came across a slip of paper, evidently in Newman's 

 handwriting, with a rough sketch ; it is as follows : — ' In a bottle. 

 Lepismodes inquilinus, four specimens, ih.e fringe will at once distin- 

 guish it from Lepisma saccharina.' This slip I pinned in the drawer 

 of LepismcB (in the Brit. Mus.). I did not get the bottle." The 

 fringe shown in the sketch (on the sides of the body) points to the 

 suspected identity of Newman's insect with that now under con- 

 sideration. But even if the identity be proved, it is still a very open 

 question as to whether Newman's name can be adopted. It would^ 

 however, have a bearing on the time the species has existed here, and 

 on the possible origin of the insect in view of the probability of 

 Packard's species being the same. And here I would call attention 

 especially to Lepisma parisiensis, Nicolet, Ann. Soc. Ent. Tr., 1847 

 {_cf Lubbock, Gollemhola and Thysanura, p. 221), found in houses in 

 Paris. The descriptioD, in some respects, points to identity with 

 our insect. 



Lewisham, London : 



March 20th, 1894. 



The Entomology of a London Bakehouse. — As it is not often we see a record of 

 insect-collecting in bakehouses, perhaps a list of my captures in a place of this kind 

 at Hoxton may not be uninteresting, and as beetles were the most numerous in 

 species and individuals, I will begin with them. 



Coleoptera. — Sphodrus leucophthalmus, one specimen running over the lid of 

 the kneading trough. Pristonychus terricola, one amongst some old lumber. Tene- 

 hrioides mauritanicus, mostly obtained by breaking up the dry pieces of dough 

 which had accumulated under the troughs, not very common. Anohium paniceum, 

 amongst the flour and dust under the troughs and under the sacks of flour, only a 

 few. Blaps mucronata, under the troughs and amongst the coals, not common. 

 Onathocerus cornutus, under the troughs, fairly common. Palorus depressus and 

 IlypophlcBus bicolor, under the ovens, amongst the cinders, flour and dust (the floor 

 of the bakehouse was the ground, and as it dried about the oven's mouth crevices 

 were formed, most of the last named species being found in these crevices), not 

 common. Alphitobius diaperinus and A. piceus, very common, under the troughs, 

 under the fireplace, up over the ovens, and in the crevices of the walls ; although so 

 nearly related, they are very unfriendly, as they were seldom found together ; piceua 

 seems most partial to the heat. Tenebrio obgcurus a.nd T. molitor, under the troughs, 

 not common. Though beetles were so plentiful, larvae were scarce, and pupse still 

 scarcer : from the larvie I took I bred a few Tenebrio. 



