92 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 7. Ptinus. 



Stridulus. Teftaceous ; fhells lightly ftriate : 3 laft joints of the antennae 

 much larger. 

 Inhabits Europe. Muf. Lejk.. p. 6. n. 127. 



Brwneus. Brown ; fhells lightly ftriate, pubefcent. 



Inhabits Europe. Muf. Lejk. p. 6. n. 128. 



B. Feelers filiform; lip bifid. Ptinus. 



Pubefcens, Pubefcent, black : (hells ftriate, teftaceous, 



Inhabits France. Oli<v. Inf. 2. 17. tab. i.fig. 7. 



Germanus. Brown ; thorax 4-toothed : antennae and legs ferruginous. 

 Inhabits Europe. Oli<v. Inf. 2. 17. tab. i.fig. 6. 

 Shells downy brown, varied with cinerous : antenna as long as 

 the body. 



tongicornis. Black, polifhed; legs yellow ifh. 



Inhabits Germany. Gecff Inf. 1. 231. 2. 



Antenna longer than the body : legs yellow, black at the ends. 



*Fur 9 Teftaceous; thorax 4-toothed: ihells with 2 white bands. 



Oli<v. Inf. 2, 17,6, 3. tab. I. fig. I. 



Inhabits Europe, and is exceedingly deftru&ive to mufeums, books, 

 furnitine, preierved fubje&s of natural hiftory, and dry feeds : 

 lar<va 6-footed, fat, loft, hairy, ferruginous, the dorial fcg- 

 ments a little prominent: nymph contained in a glutinous 

 foLicte: female without wings. 



* tmpefialis Brown ; thorax fabcarinate : fhells with a lobed white fpot. 

 Oh*v. Inf. 2. 17. tab. 1. fig. 4. 

 Inhabits Europe on trees: very fmall. 



Antennae and legs ferruginous : fcutel fnowy : fpot on the fiiells 

 refembling the eagle of the imperial iiandard. 



Crenatus, Brown; thorax gibbous : fhells with crenate ftris, imma- 

 culate. 

 Inhabits Germany : lefs than Pt. fur. 

 Antenncs as long as the body: thorax flightly tuberculate. 



Latro, Teftaceous, immaculate : thorax 2 -toothed. 



Inhabits Stratfburg* Olinj. Inf. 2. 17. tab. i.fig* 3. 

 Antenna as long as the body: thorax narcw, rcunded with 2 

 fharp dorfal teeth : fiiells punctured ftriate: thighs clavate: 



Dentkomis* Black ; fhells ftriate : antennas ferrate. 



Inhabits Paris: antennae and legs teitaceous. 



Thorax 





