INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 7. Ptinus, 91 



! Abietis. Brown ; naked: fh ells and legs teftaceous. 

 Inhabits Germany ; in the fir tree. 



Planus. Brown ; thorax plane: jfhells with crenate stria?, 



Inhabits Keil: thorax a little reflected. 



Capenfis. Ferruginous ; (hells ftriate, paler. 

 Inhabits the Cape of good hope. 



I Minutes* Teftaceous ; thorax rounded : (hells fubftriate pubefcent. 



Found in dried plar ts brought from Italy. 

 Thorax naked : legs tefaceous. 



! means. Smooth, brown: (hells naked : legs teftaceous. 



Inhabits Germany : body above paler. 



! Nitidus Naked, black, poliftied: legs teftaceous. 

 Inhabits Germany : deep black, 



*Pulfator. Subvillous, dufky, with irregular grey brown fpots^ 



Death Watch. 



Natural?]? s Mifcellany. III. tab. 104. 



Inhabits Europe in old wooden furniture; makef a peculiar 

 ticking with the fore part of its head, refembling the beating 

 with the nail upon a table; this is done in 7, 9, or n 

 diltincl ftrokes in the night time, and has been confidered by 

 vu'gar fuperflition as forerunning fome fatal occurrence in the 

 family, but is nothing more than the call of one fex to the 

 other. 



**£*' Black ; antennae tawny : (hells grooved and pun&ured. 



Inhabits Berlin. Herb/?. Arch. 4. tab. 20. fg. 12. 



Ferrugineus Ferruginous; eyes black: (hells obfoletely ftriate*' 

 Inhabits Germany. Herb/}. Arch. 4. /. 20. Jig. 13. 



Tefiaceus. Ferruginous ; eyes black : (hells very fmooth. 

 Inhabits Berlin. Herbfl. Arch. 7. p. 158, n. 4. 



Fujcus. Brown; body fpeckled with grey; fcutel grey: antennas 

 ferruginous. 

 Inhabits Europe. Muf. Lejk.p. 6. n. 121, 



Rufiu. Rufous with a yellow glofs : thorax with a yellow fpot each 

 fide behind: (hells ftriate and punctured. 

 Inhabits Eurote. Muj. Lejk.p. 6. n. 122. 



Fmuginofus Ferruginous; thorax uneven: (hells punctured ftriate: 

 antennae reddifh 

 Inhabits Europe. Muf. Lejk.p. 6. ft, 1 2 3. 



M 2 Teftaceou 



