$o INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 7. Ptinus. 



About a third the fize of the laft : thorax a little prominent before: 

 fliells rough. 



Lintatus. Green ; (hells wi/h 3 raifed lines, and one each fide the 

 thorax. 

 About half the fize o^ M. Viridis: thorax grooved, with a raifed 

 line each fide: lines on thzjhells crenate. 



7. PTINUS. Antenna filiform, the laft 

 joints larger : thorax nearly round, not 

 margined, receiving the head. 



A Feeler s clavate ; lip entire. Anobium. 



m TeJfellatus Brown; thorax even: fliells flightly tefTellate. 

 Oii'v. Inf. 2. 16. tab. I . Jig. I. 

 Inhabits England, in carcaffes. 



Striatus. Brown ; thorax uneven, with 2 ferruginous dots at the bafe; 

 fhells flriate. 

 Inhabits Keil. Oii'v. Inf. 2. 1 6. tab. I. Jig. 4. 

 Thorax with 2 abbreviated dorfal ridges. 



Rufipes. Black ; thorax roundifh : (hells flriate : legs ferruginous. 



Inhabits Germany : lefs than the laft. 



Thorax with a fmall imprefled dot at the bafe: antenna 

 ferruginous. 



Cafianeus. Downy, chefnut : (hells flriate. 



Inhabits France, Oii'v Inf. 2, 16. tab. i.fig.2. 



Pertinax. Brown, immaculate: thorax comprefled. 



Oii'v Inf. 2. 16. tab. 2. fig. 7. 



Inhabits Europe, and is very deftruttive to wooden furniture and 

 books ; when touched draws in us head and legs, and becomes 

 immoveable: is deitroyed by the Atteilabus formicanus. 



Boleti. Brown, opake : legs teftaceous. 

 Scopol Cam. 16. 42. 

 Inhabits Germany, on fungi. 

 Body very rarely teftaceous., 



* Mollis. Teftaceous ; eyes black : (hells naked. 



Inhabits Europe. Oii'v. Inf. 2. 19. tab. 2. fig. 8. 



Paniceus, Downy, ferruginous : (hells flriate. 

 Olii*. Inf.. 16. tab. 2. fig. 9. 

 Found in bread which has been kept too long. 



Brown ; 



