ISO 
MODERN SYSTEM. 
Genus 123. SCYDM/r.NUS. lllig., Puykull, Leach. AnthjcOS. 
1'abr. 
Antewnz gradually thickening towards their extremities: maxillary 
palpi terminated by an acicular obscure joint. 
Sp. 1. Scyd. Hel/wigii. Last joint of the maxillary palpi obsolete; three 
last joints of the antennae forming a club : thorax ovate : body lu s ' 
cous-red-brown, pubescent: head, thorax, and abdomen darker- 
elytra smooth. 
Pselaphus Hcllwigii. Herbst, Payh, Wig., Leach. Anthicus Hellwi- 
gii, 1'abr. Scydmtenus Helhvigii. Latr. 
Fam. XIV. Ptinid®. Leach. 
Ptiniokes. T.atreille. 
Antenna much longer than the head, filiform, or terminated by thPO® 
large joints not united into a mass. 
St i kps 1. — Antenna uniform, not terminated by three joints, large! 
than the rest. 
Genus 124. PTINUS. Linn., Fair., Latr., Lam., Oliv., Leach . 
B audit's. Geoff'. 
Antenna simple filiform, approximate, inserted between the eyes : eyc f 
projecting : thorax hood-iike : abdomen nearly oval : elytra united i 11 
the male. 
Sp. 1. Ptin. Fur. Red-fuscous: thorax with four tubercles transversely 
striated, the two middle ones highest, with tufts of hair, contract® 4 
and margined behind : abdomen ovate, rounded at the base : elytra 
villose, with two yellow r -gray bands ; the second joint of the antenn* 1 
shorter than the third: under part of the body with short gray-y 6 *' 
low hairs. 
Ptinus Fur. Linn., Fair., Latr., Oliv., Leach. 
Inhabits houses, and commits great devastation in museums. 
Obs. — Ptinus (cstaceus of Marsham is merely the male of this specie*' 
Genus 125. GIBBIUM. Latr., Leach. 
Antenna simple, setaceous, inserted behind the eyes : eyes not prom 1 ' 
nent : thorax simple : abdomen nearly globular : elytra united in bod 1 
sexes. 
Sp. 1. Gib. Scotias. Latr., Leach. 
Inhabits houses. It has been three times taken in Bristol. 
Obs. — P tinus sulcatus, Marsham, forms the type of the genus 
Leach’s MSS., and is akin to Gibbium. 
Genus 126. PTILINUS. Geoff’., Oliv., Lam., Fair., Latr., Le 
Anobium. llliger. Seruocerus. Kugellan. Ptinus. Lv l,h ' 
Marsh. 
Antenna inserted before the eyes, very much pectinated in the males- 
serrated in the female^: body long-ovoid, nearly cyliudric: tho' a - 1 
somewhat globose, 
