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Size 2.5-5 mm. Color reddish-brown. Head with a prominent double 
tubercle over the base of the antenna and another prominent, single 
tubercle over the eye; thorax widest in front, lateral margins nearly 
straight, anterior and posterior angles acute, pronotum very coarsely 
and densely punctate, punctures confluent, Y-shaped impression on the 
disc, the arms of the Y extending from the anterior margin of the 
pronotum, at the point where the lateral margins of the head meet the 
prothorax, to the center of the pronotum, and the base of the Y extending 
nearly to the posterior margin of the pronotum; elytral pubescence con- 
fused, short, sparse, recumbent, fine, yellow in color; punctures on 
elytra confused, shallow, moderately dense, elytra with variable, vague 
costae. 
This species is included in Kraus's key (4). 
Hosts : Licorice root, dried roots, chair, umbrella handle. 
Distribution and interceptions : "Central Europe, Syria, Barbary 
Coast /AfricJ7 " (Lesne ]_, p. 15); Turkey (via New York, N. Y.); France 
(via New York, N. Y. ); Mississippi (Hopkins, in Kraus 4_, p. 130; speci- 
men in U. S. National Museum collection). 
Lyctus villosa Lesne 
Lyctus villosus Lesne (6^, p. 537). 
Type locality : Mexico: Zacoalco (Jalisco). 
Size 2-3.5 mm. Color reddish-brown. Entire body covered with 
long, coarse, almost scalelike, semierect hairs which are broadened 
apically; head without tubercles; thorax quadrate, sides parallel, but 
slightly sinuate, anterior and posterior angles rounded, surface of 
pronotum coarsely rugose-punctate, punctures confluent; elytra with 
pubescence arranged in even, double rows, punctures in serial arrange- 
ment between rows of pubescence. 
This species will key to Lyctus linearis Goeze in Kraus's key 
(_4, p. 120). L. villosa is separated from _L_. linearis by the coarse, 
scalelike pubescence, which is fine and appressed in the latter species. 
Hosts: Unidentified wood, furniture, cedar closet, medicinal herbs, 
"Banak" wood, balsa wood, on banana, wood ceiling in house, woodwork 
in church, oak flooring, cigar boxes, in Leucaena esculenta (Moc. and 
Sesse) Benth. (Leguminosae). 
Distribution and interceptions: Mexico: Zacoalco, Guadalajara 
(Jalisco) (via Nogales, Ariz.), "Mexico" (via Binghamton, N. Y.), 
Monterrey(via Laredo, Tex.), "Mexico" (via Laredo, Tex.), Mexico, D.F. 
