THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH INSECTS VOL 02, DONOVAN

THE

NATURAL HISTORY
OP

BRITISH INSECTS;
EXPLAINING THEM

IN THEIR SEVERAL STATES,
WITH THE PERIODS OF THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS, THEIR FOOD,
(ECONOMY,,

&c.

TOGETHER WITH THE

HISTORY OF SUCH MINUTE INSECTS
AS REQUIRE INVESTIGATION BY THE MICROSCOPE,
THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED ET

COLOURED FIGURES,
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED FROM LIVING SPECIMENS,

BY

E.

DONOVAN,

F.L.S.

AUTHOR OP THE NATURAL HISTORIES OF BRITISH BIRDS, SHELLS,

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CCCCXXIL

PTINUS FUR.
COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennae filiform, the exterior joint largeft:

thorax fubrotund,

without margin, and receiving the head.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER

AND

SYNONYMS.
Ferruginous brown:

thorax four-toothed:

wing-cafes with two

white bands.

Ptinus Fur:

fufco-ferrugineus,

duabus

fafciis

thorace

quadridentato,

elytris

Marjh. Ent. Brit. T. I.

albis.

p. 89. n. 27.

Ptinus Fur:

teftaceus fubapterus, thorace quadridentato, elytris
fafciis

duabus

n. 4.

Mant. Inf. I. p. 40. n. 4. Ent. Sj/fi.
4
Gmel. Linn. Si$. p. 1607. n. 5.

Fabr. Spec. Inf. p. 73.

albis.

1. 2. 39.

— Linn. Fn. Suec. 651.

Cerambyx Fur.

Preys. Boh. Inf. 56. 57.

Strocm. Acl. Nidrof. 111. 393. 12.

Bruchus Testaceus

:

Parif

La Bruche

& bandes.

I. p. 164. n. 4.

t.

Geoffr.

Inf.

2. /. 6,

Ptinus

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Ptinus Rapax
Buprestis Fur

Degeer. Inf. 4. p. 231. n.

:

This deftru&ive

CCCCXXII.
5.

t.

9- /• 5. o. 7^

Scop. 210.

:

little

infe&

is

produced from a

foft

and hairy

fix-

footed larva of a ferruginous colour, which preys on furniture, books,

and other

fimilar articles.

It refides principally in

fmall tubular cavities, which

reducing, as

it

proceeds in

within the dimenfions of

Ptinus Fur
hiftory.

is

its

it

its

devious

or

pupa

courfe, the hardeft timber

receptacle to a light duft or powder.

alfo very detrimental to

The nymph

wood, occupying

perforates in a variety of directions,

is

preferved articles of natural

contained in a glutinous

follicle.

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CCCXXVI.

PTINUS PECTINICORN1S.
COLEOPTERA.

GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennae

filiform, the Jaft articulation longeff.

with a margin into which the head

is

Thorax roundifh,

drawn back.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Brown antenna
:

Ptinus Pectinicornis:

differs

fufcus antennis Iuteispe&inatis.

Nat. p.

Syji.

This fpecies

yellowilh and pectinated.

very

much from

the other Infe£ts

Ptinus genus in having feathered antennas.
it

in

before Linnaeus, called
the Ptinus

pectinicornis.

it

Ptilinus.

;

who

it

named

it

fexes of this Infect,

by the form of the antennae
pectinated, that

Geoffroy,

Linnaeus placed

genus, and to diftinguifh

The two

Linn.

1.

may be

in his

it

of the

defcribed

Syftem

fpecifically

diftinguilhed

thofe of the female are but {lightly

which we have figured

is

the

male having large

feathered antennas.

This creature

lives in

decayed wood.

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DXV.

DERMESTES MURINUS,
COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antennae clavated, the club perfoliated, and three of the joints
thorax convex and flightly margined
head infle&edj and

thicker

:

:

concealed under the thorax.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER
iNI)

SYNONYMS.
Oblong, black, clouded with whitifh down

:

abdomen and

breaft

v/hite.

Dermestes murinus

:

oblongus tomentofus nigro alboque, abdo-

mine niveo Linn.

18.—

Syjl.

Nat.

Si/Ji.

T. I. p. J. 230. 14.

2. 15(3.

3.

Fn. Sv. 426.

Dermestes murinus.
Dermestes murinus

Fabr. Ent.
:

tomentofus

fcutello fulvo.

Dermestes nebulosus.

De

fufco

cinereoque nebulofus,

Ma«jh. Ent. Brit. T. I.p.Ql.

2.

Geer. Inf. 4. 197- 2.

Feeds on putrid carcafes*

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DLXXV.

HISPA MUTICA.
HAIRY UNARMED

HISrA.

COLEOPTERA.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennae cylindrical, approximated
the eyes: feelers fuciform

at the bafe,

and feated between

thorax and wing-cafes ufually fpinous ur

:

toothed at the tip.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER,
JINB

SYNONYMS,

Unarmed, black: antennae

Hispa mutica

:

hairy

inerrnis, nigra,

Linn.

Syfi.

:

wing-cafes ftriated.

antennis pilofis, elytris ltriatis.-—

4,— Fill.

Nat. 604-

Gmel. 1732. 4.—Fabr.
1.

Inf.

T.
Ptilinus muticus.

1

A

;

Syfi,

it

Syfi,

Ent. 71.

IV. App. 443,

Linn. Fn. Su. 413.

its

v.

47.

manners

being like that infect found

which

Jated

Sp 9
Brit.

Degeer,

minute fpecies; in

tribe,

to

hirticornis.

6.

9-—Mant. 1.477.—Maijh. Ent.

p. 232.

Fab. Ent.

Dermeftes clavicornis.

Tenebrio

.

83.

3.—

170.

1.

proves injurious.

t.

3.f.

1.

faid to referable the

among

The head

is

fur, leather,

Dermeftes

clothes,

&x.

exferted, the thorax angu-

antennae filiform, and thickeft in the middle,

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