Silvan us (silvan us)

[L., sickle in his right hand and a bough in his left, and is described as the protector of herds from wolves and of trees from lightning, and a patron of agriculture in general, and as the defender of boundaries. 2. [NL. (Latreille, 1807).] A genus of clavicorn beetles, of the family Cucujidæ, consisting of small, slender species with five-jointed tarsi in both sexes, the fourth joint very small, and antennal joints from nine to eleven, abruptly enlarged. It contains about 25 species, several of which are cosmopolitan. They live under the bark of trees or in stored food-products. found all over the world, feeding on many kinds of drugs, all stored farinaceous products, etc.