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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



The drug store beetle 1 is a rather stoat, light brown beetle about 

 | of an inch long, which attacks a large variety of substances. It 

 occurs in mills, granaries and warehouses, living upon flour, meal, 

 breakfast foods, condiments, roots and herbs and animal sub- 



Fig. 30 Drug store beetle, seen from above and the side, enlarged. (Original) 



stances. It has even been known to colonize itself in a human 

 skeleton which had been dried with the ligaments left on, and has 

 been recorded as perforating tinfoil and sheet lead. 



Fig. 31 Cigarette beetle, seen Fig. 3 2 Spider beetle, seen from 



fromjabove and the side, enlarged. above, enlarged. (Original) 



(Original) 



The cigarette beetle 2 is another tiny omnivorous species. The 

 beetle is light brown, stout, slightly hairy and only J of an inch 

 long. It infests a large variety of food stuffs, including condi- 



'S i t o d r e p a panicea Linn. 



2 L a s i o d e r m a serricorne Fabr. 



