234 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



CXXV. Genus TENEBRIO. Linn, 



(318) 1. Tenebrio Molitor. Meal-worm Tenebrio. 



Tenebrio Molitor. Linn. Fn. Suec. 815 ; Syst. Nat. ii, 672, 2. Fab. Syst. Ent. 255, 2 ; Syst. Eleuth. i, 145, 8. Payk. 

 Fn. Sued, 89, 3. Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii, 590, 1. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 474, 1 . Vill. Ent. i, 385, 1 . Mull. Fn. Frid. 21, 

 213 ; Zool. Dan. 74, 794. Mart. Col. t. xxxix, / 2. Berk. Syrc. i, 108. Stew. Elem. ii, 83. Shaw. Gen. Zool. vi, 

 102, t. xxx. Leach. £</. Enc. ix, 102. Sam. Comp. 59, t. iv, f. 1. Illig. Kaf. Preuss. i, 113, 1. Oliv. Ent. iii, 57, 12, 

 13, £. i, /. 12. Herbst. Ins. vii, 240, 1, t. cxi, / 1. Panz. Fn. Germ, xliii, i. 12 ; Ent. Germ, i, 40, 3. Ross. Fn. Etrusc. 

 i, 231,577. Petagn. Ins. Cat. 26, 128. Scop. Cam. 259. De Geer Ins. v, 34, 3, t. ii. /. 4. Ced. 7n. 7n^r. 36. 

 Poss. 7ns. Beyfr. i, 25, ?. iii,/ 1—14. Blum. Hand. Ed. 7, 335, 1. Fisch. Nat. v,i, 138, 290; Act. Zips, iv, 1736, 

 19, 1. Roem. Ins. t. xxxiv, /. 31. Frisch. 7ns. viii, t.]. Sulz. Gesch. t. vii, /. 52. Geoff. 7ns, i, 342, 6. Schasff. 

 7con. t. lxvi, /. 1. H— r. Schmett 187. Lat. Gen. ii, 179, 2 ; N. Diet. D'H. N. xxxiii, 44, t. r. 1, /. 10 ; Crust. Arachn. 

 et Ins. ii, 25. Steph. Illustr. Mandib. v, 8, 1. 



Length of the body 7A lines. 



Taken in Nova Scotia by Captain Hall. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblong-linear, minutely and numerously punctured, a little glossy, naked, above piceous, 

 underneath rufo-piceous. Head uneven, nearly orbicular ; anteriorly rufo-piceous ; antennas and 

 palpi rufo-piceous : prothorax transverse, sides rounded with a reflexed margin ; posterior margin 

 wavy, just above which, on each side, is a roundish impression ; posterior angles acuminate : scutel- 

 lum transverse, subacuminate : elytra scarcely wider than the prothorax, slightly furrowed, furrows 

 punctured with the interstices transversely somewhat wrinkled, and most numerously and minutely 

 punctured : shoulders short, compressed and incrassated ; cubit curved. 



The grub of this common beetle may very possibly have been originally imported into North 

 America from Europe in flour. 



(319) 2. Tenebrio pennsylvanicus. Pennsylvaman Tenebrio. 



Tenebrio pennsylvanicus. Knoch. Neue. Beytr. 167, 2. 

 Length of the body 8 — 9 lines. 



Several specimens taken in the Expedition in Lat. 54°.; it was also sent me by 

 Dr. Harris. 



Knoch says that it is found under bark. 



