前言于1978年,在哥拉斯哥港,从卡拉奇运来的一批骨制品中,发现了一头残缺不全的Dermestes leechi Kalik 的雌虫标本。据印度南部的 Bhadravati(Kalik,1952)所描述的这个种,迄今为止还未曾在贮藏品中有记载。而这个发现,算作是来自巴基斯坦的第一份报告。现已查明,在苏联的中亚地区,这个种分布于洞穴内的小动物的干尸上以及鸟巢中(Zhantiev,1976),作者曾在印度中部的 Mysore 省内见到过一个标本,在那个地区,这个种与吐丝蛾类的茧有着密切 Preface In 1978, at the port of Glasgow, a specimen of Dermestes leechi Kalik female was found missing from a group of bones shipped from Karachi. This species, described by Bhadravati (Kalik, 1952) in southern India, has so far not been documented in stockpiles. And this discovery, counted as the first report from Pakistan. It has been ascertained that in the Central Asian region of the Soviet Union, in the mummy of this species of small animal found in caves and in the nest (Zhantiev, 1976), the author has seen a specimen in the province of Mysore in central India, Area, this species is closely related to the cocoon of the moths