1 14 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY 



(162) 2. Attagenus pellio. (Latreille.) Furrier Attagenus. 



Attagenus pellio. Lat. N. D. D'H. N. iii, 64. Leach, E. E. ix, 94. Sam. Compend. 182. Steph. IUustr. Mandib. iii, 



126, 1. Kirb. and Sp. Introd. to Ent. i, 234 ; iii, 324. 

 Dermestes pellio. Linn. Fn. Suec. 411 ; Syst. Nat. ii, 562, 4. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. i, 313, 6. Gyll. Ins. Suec. i, 151, 7. 



Payk. Fn. Suec. i, 279, 4. Illig. Kaf. Preuss. i, 316, 6, «. Latr. Gen. ii, 32, 2. Oliv. Ent. ii, 9, 1 1 , 10, t. ii, /. 11. 



Herbst. Ins. iv, 128, II, *. xl, /. 8, f. Ross. Fn. Etrusc. i, 32, 75. Ced. Fn. Ingr. 126. Walck. Fn. Paris, i, 90, 2. 



Panz. Ent.Germ. i, 95, 5. Hoppe. Tasch. 1797, 146. Blum, 77anc/&. ed. 7, 321, 2. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 63, 6. Berk. 



Syn. i, 89. Don. Brit. Ins. vii, £. ccxxxi, f. 3. Stew. £7em. ii, 31. Shaw. Gen. Zool. vi, 32, t. vii. Scrib. Journ. 



152, 78. Scop. Cam. 37. Mull. Zool. Dan. 56, 486. Lai. Tyr. Ins. ii, 62, 4. Schrank. Snam. 28, 48. Goeze. Eur. 



Fn. viii, 183, 2. Brahm. 7ns. Za/. i, 9, 32, 238, 816. Pod. Mus. Grcec. 22, 3. Fourc. Ent. Par. i, 18, 4. Mull. 



Naturf. iii, 63. Vill. Ent. i, 45, 4. 

 bipunctatus. De Geer. Ins. iv, 197, 3. 



Geoffr. 7ns. i, 100, 4. Act. Ups. 1736, 117, 11. Schaaff. 7c. t. xlii,/. 4. H— r. 7ns. 45, 46. Mull. 7inn. Nat. i, 101, 

 4. *. iii, /. 2. Bar. Aai. vi, 60, 2, «. iii, / e. Bechst. Nat. ii, 822, 2. Frisch. 7ns. v, 22, t. viii. Bock. AW. v, 25, 14. 

 Mull. Fn. Frid. 2, 16. Rai. Hist. Ins. 85, 35. 



Dermestes pellio. (3. y. h. Illig. Kaf. Preuss. i, 316, 6, y. 



ater. Panz. Ent. Germ, i, 96, 7. 



cylindricornis. Schrank. Naturf. xxiv, 65, 8. 



Megatoma Schrankii. Schneid. Afcrg. i, 480. 



atra. Herbst. 7ns. iv, 95, 2, t. xxxix, f. 2. Sulz. 7m/. <. ii, /. 5—7. 



Length of the body 2J lines. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Captain Hall. 



This species, though particularly destructive to furs, is to be met with in other 

 animal matters, and is very common in houses. De Geer describes its larva as 

 having a very long body covered with a hard shining skin of a reddish-brown 

 colour and hairy ; as having six legs, and the posterior extremity terminated by 

 a long remarkable tail, formed of rufous hairs as long as the body, and placed 

 horizontally in the same line : He says their motion is gliding, but by snatches. 



DESCRIPTION. 



The American specimen, which is a male, is considerably larger than my British ones and blacker; 

 but in other respects it precisely resembles them. The species may generally be known by its black 

 or dark-piceous colour, covered, especially underneath, with decumbent whitish or cinereous hairs. 

 The stalk of the antenna, and the tarsi, are testaceous, and the last joint of the former, in the 

 male, is longer than the two first and cylindrical : the prothorax at the three posterior angles has three 

 white spots formed of hairs, and the elytra one in the middle near the suture. 



