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DERMESTIDjE. 115 



LXII. Genus DERMESTES. Linn. 



(163) 1. Dermestes lardarius. (Linne.) Bacon Dermestes. 



Dermestes lardarius. Linn. Fn. Succ. 408 ; Syst. Nat. ii, 5C1, 1. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. i, 312, 1. Payk. Fn. Suee. i, 276, 1- 

 Gyll. Ins. Suec. i, 146, 1. Illig. Kaf. Pruess. i, 311, 1. Lat. Gen. ii, 31, 1. [Hist. Nat. ix, 240. N. D. D'H. N. 

 ix, 364, t. d. vi, / 4. Oliv. Ent. ii, 9, 6, 1, t. i, / 1. Herbst. 7ns. iv, 115, 1, t. xl, /. 1 . Panz. Ent. Germ, i, 91, I. 

 Preysl. Bohm. Ins. i, 13, 10. Ross. Fn. Etrusc. i, 31, 73. Blum. Handb. ed. 7, 321, i. Scop. Cam. 34. Ced. Fn. 

 Ingr. 124. Fisch. Naturg. v. Livl. 132,251. De Geer, 7ns. iv, 192, 1, t. vii, /. 15. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 60, 1. Brahm. 

 7ns. Kal. i, 17, 155 and 238, 817. Schneid. Mag. 478, 1. Barb. 7ns. 18, t. iii, /. 1. Goeze Eur. Fn. viii, 176, 1. 

 Mull. Zool. Dan. Pr. 56, 485. Lai. Tyr. Ins. ii, 59, 1. Schrank, Enum. 24, 40. Pont. Nat. 199,1. Mull. 

 Naturf. iii, 61. Pod. Mus. Grcec. 22. Geoffr. 7ns. i, 101, 5. Fourc. Ent. Par. i, 18, 5. Walck. Fn. Paris i, 90, 1. 

 Vill. Tin*, i, 44, 1. Mull. Linn. Nat. i, 100, 1, t. iii, /. 1 . Bar. Nat. vi, 59, 1, t. iii, / a. 1, 2. Bechst. Nat. ii, 822, I. 

 Licht. Mag. vii, 4, 34. Bock. Nat. v, 24, 11. w risch. 7ns. v, 25, «. ix. Scbaeff. 7con. t. xlii, /. 3. H— r. 7ns. 41, &c. 

 Goed. Zis*. 276, /. 114. Rai. Hist. Ins. 107, 4. Blank. 5e&/. 95, t. xi, /. k. Scbmied. 7ns. 203. Kriin. Encycl. vii, 

 345. Voet. Col. t. xxxi, /. 1. Berk. Syn. i, 89. Stew. Elem. ii, 31. Shaw. Gen. Zool. vi, 31, t. vii. Leach £. E. 

 ix, 94. Sara. Compend. 181, 1. Kirb. and Sp. 7nfrorf, i, 228. Steph. Illustr. Mandib. iii, 121, 1. 



Length of the body 4| lines. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Capt. Hall ; in Massachusets by Mr. Drake. 



Latreille observes that this insect is found in every quarter of the old world, and 

 the specimens from which the following description is taken, furnish a proof that 

 it is also a devourer of hams and bacon in the new. These, however, could not 

 have been its original food, since it must have existed before hams and bacon were 

 invented : in fact, though often found in them, it feeds indiscriminately on all 

 animal substances, whether putrescent or dried. 



DESCRIPTION. 



The American specimens differ in no respect from our English ones. The body is black, 

 covered more or less with decumbent cinereous hairs. It may always be known by the fusco-cine- 

 reous base of the elytra with three black dots placed in a triangle. 



(164) 2. * Dermestes dissector. Dissector Dermestes. 



7). (dissector J niger, pubescens ; antennis brunneis, pedibus piceis, capite prothoraceque fusco cinereoque, elytris cinereo, nebulosis. 

 Dissector Dermestes, black, pubescent ; antenna; mahogany-colour, legs piceous, head and prothorax clouded with brown 

 and cinereous, elytra with cinereous only. 



Length of the body 3^ lines. 



Taken bv Dr. Bigsby in Canada. 



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