Furniture Beetles. 



IL— DESCRIPTION AND LIFE-HISTORY 

 OF THE SPECIES 



The Common Furniture Beetle. Anobium punctatum, De 

 Geer (= striaHm Oliv.). (See Frontispiece and Fig. 1, a.) 



In the month of June, or sometimes a little earlier or later, the 

 beetles of this species, having emerged from the pupae which lie 

 in little cells just below the surface of the wood, bore their way- 

 out, and are then to be seen walking, or occasionally flying about 

 the house. They vary in length from about one-tenth to one-fifth 



FlQ. 1. 

 a. Anobium punctatum, De Geer. b. Its larva. 



De Geer. 



Xestobium nifovillosum, 



of an inch, and are of a reddish brown or darker brown colour, 

 somewhat modified by a fine covering of short yellow-grey hairs. 

 On the wing-cases is a series of narrow longitudinal grooves or 

 striae, marked each with a row of closely-set small pits or 

 punctures. The prothorax, or first body segment, strongly raised 

 in the middle, overlaps the head in front, and, seen sideways, 

 looks like a little bonnet or hood covering it. Another distinctive 

 feature well shown in the figures, is the length and shape of the 

 three last joints of the 11- jointed antennae. 



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