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Cigarette-beetle; Tobacco-beetle. (Lasioderma serricorne.) Figure 167. 
This small Ptinid beetle sometimes occurs in tobacco stores, but 
may not be fully naturalized here. In the United States and other 
countries it often does great damage to cigars and to tobacco in all 
other forms in warehouses. It also sometimes feeds on dried fish, figs, 
rice, yeast-cakes, ginger, rhubarb root, red pepper, ergot, herbarium 
specimens, silk fabrics, ete. 
Drug-store Beetle; Bread-beetle. (Sitodrepa panicea L.) Figure 166a. 
This little beetle is nearly cylindrical and about 2.5™™ long, plain 
light brown in color, and with striated elytra. Its larva is a great 
pest in most countries, for it destroys all sorts of drugs of vegetable 
and animal origin, as well as dried bread, ship biscuit, flour, meal, 
beans, peas, coffee, chocolate, nuts, and all sorts of seeds. It is 
partial to dog-bread. Among drugs and condiments, it is very fond 
of red pepper, black pepper, ginger, rhubarb, orris root, wormwood, 
anise, etc.; nor does it object to aconite, belladonna, and cantharides. 
The larva has powerful jaws with which it can gnaw tunnels through 
the hardest dried roots, cloth, leather, etc. It is said that it some- 
times even penetrates tinfoil and sheet lead, if in its way. 
Cleride. This family is represented by at least the Red-legged 
Bacon- or Ham-beetle (Wecrobia rufipes DeGeer), fig. 168, whose 
larva often does great damage to hams and bacon. It also feeds 
on various other dry animal products. The beetle is dull bluish, 
with red legs; the larva is whitish, mottled with gray. It is found 
in nearly all warm countries. 
Lampyrids; Fireflies; Fire-beetles; Lightning-bugs; Glow-worms. 
Although no representatives of this family were in our collections, 
it seems desirable to call attention to the efforts that have been 
made to introduce at least one species, whether successfully or not 
we do not know. It probably would not have appeared so early in 
the spring as the period of our visits. 
American Firefly or Lightning-bug. (? Photuris Pennsyluanica 
(DeG.) Lec.) Figures 169, 170. 
Mr. J. M. Jones (Visitor’s Guide, 1876) states that Gov. Lefroy 
had recently introduced the American Fire-fly, presumably Photi- 
nus pyralis (L.), or P. Pennsylvanica (figs. 169, 170), but he did not 
know whether it had then become naturalized. 
