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Pull EDLY Xy, 
HISPA MUTICA. 
HAIRY UNARMED HIsPA, 
COLEOPTERA, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne cylindrical, approximated at the bafe, and feated between 
the eyes: feelers fuciform: thorax and wing-cafes ufually {pious or 
toothed at the tip. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Unarmed, black: antenne hairy; wing-cafes ftriated. 
HlisPA MUTICA: inermis, nigra, antennis pilofis, elytris firiatis.— 
Linn. Syfi. Nat. 604. 4,—Vill. 1 
. 170. 3— 
Gmel. 1732. 
4.—Fabr. Syjfi. Ent. 71. 6.—Sp, 
Inf. 1.83. 9.— Mant. 1.477.—Marh. Ent. Bitt. 
Pie pe eae. 
Ptilmus muticus. Fab. Ent, Syjt. IV. App. 443. 
Dermeftes clavicornis. Linn. Fn. Su. 413. 
Tenebrio hirticornis. Degeer. v. 47. t. 3. pM 
A minute fpecies; in its manners faid to refemble the Dermettes 
tribe, being like that imfect found among fur, leather, clothes, Xc. 
to which it proves injurious. The head 1s exferted, the thorax angu- 
lated; antennz filiform, and thickeft in the middle, 
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