. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. THE DEATH-WATCH AND DRUG STORE BEETLES. 875 XI. LASiODERiiA Stephens. 1832, (Gr., "hairy + ;) Oval, more or less elongate, moderately convex, species having the body clothed with recumbent pubescence; antennae serrate, but not strongly so, the outer joints not more elongate; elytra not stri- ate ; metasternum short, suddenly sloping downward in front from side to side, the decli^'ity limited b
. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. THE DEATH-WATCH AND DRUG STORE BEETLES. 875 XI. LASiODERiiA Stephens. 1832, (Gr., "hairy + ;) Oval, more or less elongate, moderately convex, species having the body clothed with recumbent pubescence; antennae serrate, but not strongly so, the outer joints not more elongate; elytra not stri- ate ; metasternum short, suddenly sloping downward in front from side to side, the decli^'ity limited behind by a transverse raised line extending across the body. Two of the five known species occur in Indiana. 1663 (5299). Lasiodekjia seeeicobne Fab., Ent. Syst,, I, 1798, 241. Elongate-oval, moderately convex. Uniform dull reddish-yellow or brown- ish-red. Head broad, eyes small. Antennre rather narrow, second and third joints smaller than first, the third distinctly triangular; fourth to tenth about as wide as long; eleventh oval. Thorax strongly convex, front angles. a h e Fig. 347. o, larva; 6, pupa; c, beetle; d, same, side \-iew, c, antenna. All enlarged. (After Howard and Marlatt in Bull. IV, Div. Ent„ U. S. Dept, Agr,) acute, hind angles wanting. Punctuation of entire upper surface fine, uni- form, not dense. Length mm. (Fig. 347.) Howard, Vigo, Clarion, Putnam and Lawrence counties; fre- C[uent ^ocally. April 10-November 7. Specimens in all stages were f md in smoking tobacco put up in tin boxes on the earlier date. ,ndely distributed over^the Avorld by commerce and feeds on a vai'iety of dried vegetable products, such as cayenne pepper, ginger, rhubarb, rice, figs, yeast cakes and prepared fish food. To- bacco it in every form, in the leaf and when made up into chewing plug, cigarettes and cigars. It is, therefore, often known as the '' cigarette beetle.'' Both it and the larva may be destroyed by submitting them to the fumes of bisulphide of carbon,
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