592 PAMIL\' XXIV. DKRMESTin.lO. 



safe. It is said that an entire generation of the beetle may be 

 developed in six weeks, so under proper conditions of warmth and 

 food supply the increase of the insect will be very rapid. 



B. elongatus Lee., length 9 mm., is a southern and western spe- 

 t'ies which has been recorded from near Oincinna.ti. 



III. Atta(ienus Latr. 1802. (Gr., "a woo(Jcock.") 



Small oblong' species clothed with i-athcr sparse, dark pubes- 

 cence, having the antenna' 11 -jointed: hind coxal plate long, narrow 

 and prominent; mes(!sternum na.rrow and emarginate. 



ni;il (P,4fcU). AiTAQioNCs picEUs Ollv., Eiit. Ilist. Nat., II, ]TN'.), !). 



Oblong, subeoiivex. Head and tlKii'ax black; el.v- 

 tra dark reddish-brown to yioeons or lilack, clothed 

 with short, sparse pubescence. Thorax coarsely punc- 

 tate, base l)isiini,-ite with a slight impression before the 

 scutelluni. Elytra more finely and densely punctate. 

 Last .ioint ol' male jmtennal club as lonj; as the entire 

 reiii.-iiudci of antenn;e, iiointed at the end. Length ?>.'<- 

 'i nun. (Fig. --4. ) 



Throughout the State; frequent in the south- 

 ern counties, less no northward, ^larch 16-Au- 

 BuL^4,^N*'ser^Kv. 1X0.' g^^st 26. A common museum and household pest 

 s. Dep. Agr.) oftcn fotind Dn windows while trying to escape. 



It is known as the "black carpet beetle," and the larvae often d:) 

 much damage to carpets, silk and woolen goods, feathers, etc. The 

 same remedies may be used as are given for the Buffalo carpet 

 beetle on a succeeding page. Taken also on Howers of wild parsnip 

 in July. 



IV Deartuus Lee. 1861. 



One small oblong black species represents this genus in the Stale. 



1130 (3438). Dearthius longclds Lee, New Spec. N. Amer. Col.. I, 

 1863, 73. 

 Narrowly oblong-oval, moderately convex. Black or piceous. clothed 

 with short dark pubescence ; under surface and legs dark reddish-brown 

 to piceous, clothed with S)i;ii-se gray hairs. Thorax nearly twice as wide 

 as long, distinctly narrowed from liasc to apex, sides evenly and feebly 

 curved, base broadly and fccl)ly l(il)ed and bisinuate; disk rather coarsely 

 but not densely punctate and «ith a short, line median line. Elytra coarsely 

 but not closely punctate. L.-isI .ioint of male antenn.ie almost thrw times 

 as long as the Iwo preceding united, olituse at end. Length 2.r> mm. 



Marion and Posey cottnties: scarce. IMay 3-i\Tay S. Beaten 

 from tlowers of the red haw, ('rdittfiiis piuivlala -lacci. 



