16 INSECTS AFFECTING STOKED PRODUCTS. 
rate, rather strongly margined laterally. Elytra about the same width as the pro- 
thorax, depressed, covering the abdomen, subparallel, with fine costse. Legs short 
and slender; tibiae armed on their outer margins with short, sharp spines, the posterior 
tibiae with a row of blunt teeth at the base, slightly projecting over the 1st joint of the 
tarsus, tibial spurs short; tarsi 5-jointed, the basal very short, the 2nd and 3rd rather 
longer, the 4th shorter, and the 5th nearly as long as the other four together; claws 
simple. 
The fine but distinct costae on the elytra, the gradual 4-jointed club of the antennae, 
and the peculiar structure of the posterior tibia?, are characters which will serve at once 
to distinguish this genus. 
The antenna? in the present species (fig. 2, a, b) have the basal joint 
much enlarged and produced on the inner surface, the terminal joints 
forming a three-jointed club instead of a four-jointed one as is in the 
type species. The strongly produced apices of the thoracic margin 
form a strong character, common to the group, but not found in other 
forms of beetles known to attack stored cereals. 
Klug's original description of the species is as follows: 
Peltis F. 
81. Peltis pusilla n. sp. 
P. elongata, feiruginea, capite thoraceque punctatis, elytris punctato-striatis. 
Long. lin. 1J. 
Statura fere P. oblongse. Depressa, fere linearis, dorso ferruginea, subtus rufo- 
testacea. Caput et thorax confertim punctata. Elytra thorace duplo-longiora, 
marginata," striata, ad strias punctata. Pedes rufo-testacei. 
The species may be further recognized by the following description: 
Lophocateres pusillus Klug. 
Elongate, flattened; dorsal surface glabrous, ferruginous brown, with elytral mar- 
gins paler ferruginous, strongly punctate. Head deeply, closely, and coarsely punc- 
tate. Thorax transverse, finely and distinctly punctate like the head, sides 
subparallel, narrowed anteriorly. Elytra parallel, each presenting seven costse which 
bear on each side a row of close and deep punctures. Apices of elytra rounded. 
Legs ferruginous. 
Length 2.7-3 mm.; width 1.0-1.2 mm. 
THE LARVA. 
M. Claudius Rey 6 gives a description of the larva (fig. 2, c), of 
which the following is a translation : 
Body subelongate or oblong, somewhat attenuate at the extremities, subdepressed 
or a little convex, obsoletely pilose at the edges; dirty white, somewhat shiny, with 
the head and last abdominal segment fulvous, the latter armed at the apex 'with an 
angular median tooth, and with two strong hooks with points recurved upward and 
slightly toward each other. 
Head nearly round, a little narrower than the prothorax, somewhat divided by a 
median channel into two smooth and somewhat convex discs, flattened, biimpressed 
and subrugulose in front, decided fulvous yellow, provided on the sides with four or 
five long, pale bristles. Labrum transverse, ruddy. Mandibles ferruginous, with 
black points, bidentate. Palpi small, testaceous; eyes rather distinct; antennae 
slightly projecting, testaceous, the joints narrowing gradually. 
