Byrrhus. COLEOPTERA. 39 



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Genus VII. Byrrhus. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page $6$. 



The antenns of the Byrrhus are club- 

 formed, and terminate in a capitulum or 

 knob, which is of an oval form, rather 

 compreffed or flattened, and almod of a 

 folid fubftance, (fub folidum.) 



GeofFroy and Schasffer agree with Linnaeus in 

 the definition of this genus, to which they have 

 given the name of Anthrenus, the infects belong- 

 ing to it being generally found upon flowers. 



Schsefier has added to the characters afilgned 

 to it by our author, that the head is bent, or in- 

 clined downwards, and hid under the thorax ; 

 which particularity is of great fervice in diftin-- 

 £uifhin£ this infect, the form of the antennas a- 



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lone being fc$rce fufficiept for that purpofe. 



Geoffroy obferves that the larvas of the An- 

 threni are found upon plants, or in the bodies 

 of half decayed animals ; they often undergo 

 their metamorphofis in the bodies of preferved 

 infects, which they reduce to powder. 



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