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XCIV. Genus ANOBIUM. Fab. 



* Elytris striatis. 



(253) 1. * Anobium foveatum. Excavated Anobium. 



A. (foveatum) rufo-fuscum subtus dilutius, pubescens, subcylindricum ; prothorace dorso elevato in medio foveato, utrinque 



unidentalo . 

 Excavated Anobium, reddish brown, paler underneath, pubescent, subcylindrical ; back of the prothorax elevated with an 



excavation in the middle ; armed on each side with a tooth. 



Length of the body 2 lines. 



A pair taken in Lat. 65°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This species very closely resembles A. striatum, of which it may be regarded as the American 

 representative. It diS'ers principally in having a rather large excavation in the middle of the elevated 

 back of the prothorax, the sides of which are armed with a triangular tooth or prominence. 



The male is obscurely rufous, both above and below, the female is browner above. 



XCV. Genus CIS. Lat. 



(254) 1. Cis micans. (Fabricius.) Glittering Cis. 



Cis micans. Gyll. Ins. Suec. iii, 379, 2? De Jean Cat. 102. Steph. Illustr. Mandib. iii, 345, 4. 



Anobium micans. Fab. Ent. Si/st. i, 238, 13; Sijst. Eleuth. i, 324, 14. Illig. Kqf. Preuss. i, 331, 7. Payk. Fn. Suec. 



i, 309, 3. Herbst. Ins. v, 64, 10, t. xlvii, /. 11, k. 

 Ptinus villosulus. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 86, 14. 



Length of the body 1 line. 



Two specimens taken in the Expedition. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body subcylindrical, black-brown, glossy, with numerous short upright pale rather glittering hairs; 

 minutely but not very visibly punctured. Head rather flat and lacunose ; antenna; and legs testa- 

 ceous. Prothorax anteriorly sinuated on each side with the middle lobe rounded and projecting a 

 little over the head ; sides slenderly margined ; posterior angles rounded. Punctures of the elytra 

 seem almost, but very indistinctly, arranged in rows. 



I am not quite clear that this is Major Gyllenhal's C. micans. The clava of the antennas is of 

 the same colour with the stalk, and the punctures of the elytra appear almost but not evidently 

 arranged in rows, which leads to some suspicion that it may be the C. hispidus of that author. It 

 is however the Ptinus villosulus of Mr. Marsham : and I think the Anobium micans of Fabricius 

 and Paykull. 



