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Attagenus piceus, Riley-Howard: in Insect Life, iii, 1890, p. 34 (incr and 

 inj. in Washington); pp. 65, 66 (injuring carpets); id., iv, 1892, p. 345 

 (abundance and injury in Illinois), p. 404 (feather felting). 



Attagenus piceus. Beutenmuller: in Journ. N. Y. Microscop. Soc, vii, 1891, 

 p. 14 (bibliography of larval descriptions). 



Both of the above-named insects have been briefly noticed in formei* 

 reports, but so frequent are the inquiries received in relation to themf- 

 and so serious the injuries that they inflict, that some additional notes 

 on them may be acceptable and prove of service. 



The publication of a Bulletin, to contain all that seemed desirable 

 for practical purposes and of interest to know, which could serve as a 

 convenient reply to the many inquiries made, has been in contemplation 

 for some time, but it still awaits the leisure for its preparation. In 

 the meanwhile the bibliography herewith presented should be of service 

 to those desiring to learn more of its history and habits. 



Some Features of Anthrenus scrophulariae 

 In the accompanying diagrammatic drawings (after Jayne) represent- 

 ing the markings of the beetle as seen from above, a is that of the typical 



scrophularim. In comparison with 

 Figure 2, reproduced from former 

 reports, it more faithfully repre- 

 sents the hundreds of examples 

 that have come under my observa- 

 tion, in the extended white mar- 

 ginal bordering of the thorax; 

 while the white spots near the 

 outei* border of the wing-cover 



calform; 6, var. flavipes; c, var. thoracicus; ^1*^ tOO Sharply denDed and tail tO 

 d, the ll-iointed antenna. . •,! ,i -i . ,• 



connect with the red projections 

 from the sutural line so as to form the irregular 

 transverse bands. It should be remembered that 

 the line (sutural) along the joining of the wing- 

 covers and its three inward projections are orange- 

 red, and a striking characteristic of the species. \ 

 There are, however, marked differences in orna- 

 mentation, which are to some extent local : two 

 varieties bear the name of var. flampes LeConte, 

 (shown at b in Figure 1), and var. thoracica Mels., 

 at c. At d, the Il-jointed clubbed antenna is *p^Rr^f^omRUe?o 

 represented, by means of which it may be separated from the other 

 species of the genus. 



