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Genus Leprnotus Heyd. 
Characters as given in the key above. 
Genotype.—Lepinotus inquilinus Heyd. 
Lepinotus inquilinus Heyd. (Text-fig. 4.) 
This species is fairly common throughout New Zealand, and does a 
considerable amount of damage to books, paper, museum specimens, &c. 
It is here shown. Mature specimens vary in size from 1 mm. to 1:5 mm. 
in length, and may be either pale brown, dark brown, or almost black in 
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^ : Fig. 4.— Lepinotus inquilinus Heyd. E : 
Wingless form, Nelson, N.Z. X 40. E 
Ете. 3.— Atropos pulsatoria (Müller). 
Nelson, N.Z. x 40. 
colour. The head-sutures are fairly distinctly marked. The compound 
eyes are large and prominent, but there are no ocelli. The antennae 
consist, of from 15 to 17 joints, of which the first two are stouter than the 
rest. Maxillary palpi four-jointed, the second joint a little longer than 
the distal one, which is elongate-oval in shape. The prothorax is well 
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