Dermeftes. COLEOPTER A. 3 1 



Genus III. Dermestes. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 561. 

 The antennae of the Dermeftides end in 

 a perfoliated club, Or a head of an oval 

 form, divided into different horizontal 

 plates or leaves, which feem to be united 

 together by a fmall ftalk paffing through 

 their centre, and have three articulations 

 thicker or larger fized than the others. 



The thorax is of a convex form, and 

 flightly margined. 



The head is bent in, and as it were con- 

 cealed under the thorax. 



Schseffer and GeofFroy have taken from one of 

 the Dermeftides of our author the genus they 

 have termed Bqftrichius. This infedt differs from 

 the other Dermeftides in the cubical fhape of its 

 thorax, Its antennse are not perfoliated, but 

 the three laft articulations are much larger than 

 the others. 



The genus to which they have given the name 

 ciGftela feems likewife to belong to the Linnasan 

 jDermcftis, from which it differs principally in 



having 



