78 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 3. Dermeftes. 



at the tip, 2-toothed on the inner fide. 

 Inhabits Africa. Stockh. Tranf 1787, /. 8. /. 2. 



Antikpe. Jaws exferted, edged on the inner fide, the upper margin 

 2-toothed, lower 5-toothed. 

 Inhabits Africa. Stockh. Tranj. 1787, /. 8. /. 3. 

 Body brown, nearly fmooth. 



Bubaluf. Black ; jaws bifid, one part projecting, fublunate, 3-toothed 

 within ; the other larger, defle&ed, arched, entire. 

 Inhabits Georgia. Stockh. TranJ. 1787, /. 8. f. 4. 



Interruptus Antennas arched : body black, with a recumbent fpine on 

 the crown : thorax and abdomen remote. 

 PaJJalus interruptus. Fabric. \. .2 p. 240. 

 Olicv. Inf. 1. /. 3. /. 5. 



Inhabits America* under rotten fugar canes. 

 Thorax *xi& Jhells ciliate, with rurous. 



Dtntatus. Antennas arched : head many-toothed : thorax punctured at 

 the fides : thorax and abdomen remote. 



PaJJalus dentatus. Fabric 1. 2. p. 241. 



Oliv.lnf. 1 1 tab. ^ fig 14. 



Inhabits Guadeloupe ; much lefs than the laft. 



Body depreffed, black : head with numerous fhort elevated teeth : 

 thorax grooved in the middle, not ciliate : Jbells grooved : legs 

 fliort. 



Minutus, Antennas arched : thorax and abdomen remote : ferrugi- 

 nous, (hells teftaceous. 

 PaJJalu* Minutus. Fabric. I. 2. p. 241. 

 Inhabits South American IJIands. 



Body deprefled, hardly larger than a loufe : jaws exferted, fhort, 

 unarmed, pointed : Jbells hardly ftriate. 



. DERMESTES. j4nfcnn« clavate, the 

 club perfoliate, 3 of the joints thicker: 

 thorax convex 3 flightly margined: head 

 infle&ed and hid under the thorax. 



Leather-eater. 



The larvae or grubs of this tribe devour dead bodies, flcins, lea- 

 ther, and almoft any animal fubftance, and are exceedingly 

 deftruttive to books and furniture. 



A. yaw bifid. 

 *Lardarivs Black j (hells cinereous on the upper half. 



Inhabit 



