470 THE INSECT WORLD. 
The Claviger foveolatus (Fig. 467) is met with in the nest of a 
little yellow ant, which takes as much care of it as of its own 
progeny, because the Claviger secretes a liquid very much 
appreciated by ants, who are contimually occupied in licking its 
back. 
The Dermestide attack by preference the tendons and the 
skins of carcasses. A few of the insects of this family are the 

Fig. 468.—Bacon Beetle ( Dermestes lardarius), magnified and natural size. 
plague of our collections and the furriers. They devour a 
quantity of dry substances—skins, feathers, catgut, hair, objects 
made of tortoise-shell, the dried bodies of insects, &e. Some other 
Dermestide feed on animal matter still fresh: such is the Bacon 
Beetle, Dermestes lardarius (Fig. 468), which is to be met with in 
some dirty pork-shops. It is black, with the base of its elytra 
tawny and marked with three black spots. The larvee are covered 

Fig. 469.—Attagenus pellio, magnified and natural size. 
with a russety hair; they eat, bacon, skins, and also attack each 
other. The perfect insect doesno damage. Like all the Dermestide, 
it counterfeits death when handled. The Dermestes vulpinus, of a 
tawny grey, injures furs, and the Hudson’s Bay Company, 
whose storehouses in London were infested by this insect, offered 
a reward of £20,000 for a means of destroying this insect. 
The furriers have also cause to dread the Attagenus pellio(Fig. 469), 
