69 

 This figure has been usually cited as the Elater flabellicornis Linn., the habitat of 

 which is said to be India, whereas the real habitat of Drury's insect, as confirmed by 

 Afzelius and De Jean, is Sierra Leone and Guinea. This insect was sometimes found 

 by Mr. Smeathman in the evenings, having flowTi into the houses, to which it was 

 attracted by the lights. 



ELATER (AGIIYPNUS) QUADRI-MACULATUS. 



Plate XLVII. fig. 2. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section; Serriconies. Family: Elatericla;. 



Gends. Elater, Linn. ^c. (Subgenus: A%Ty^rm», Eschscholtz.) , 



Elater (Agrypnus) Quadri-maculatus. Cinercus, thoracis punctis quatuor, elytris fasciis iluabus undulatis 

 nigris. (Long. Corp. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Elater quadri-maculatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 1. U. p. 219. 14. Syst. Eleuth. 11. p. 224. 13. Oliv. Ent- 

 11. 31. p. 20. t.%. f. 79. Herbst. Col. x. p. 105. «. 168./. 3. Kluy Ermann's Voy. App. p. 31. 

 pi. 16./. 3. 

 Elater fasciatus, Dniry, App. vol. 3. 



Habitat ; Coast of Africa (DriiryJ. " In Africa Eequinoctiali" (Fabr.). 



Head grey. Antennae serrated and black ; much shorter than the thorax, which is grey, with two 

 small round black spots on the middle, and two square ones next the scutellum, which is black, 

 surrounded by a patch of the same colour. Elytra grey, with two waved irregular bands crossing them, 

 one near the middle, the other near the tips. Beneath black, and, when viewed through a microscope, 

 appearing to be powdered as it were with grey. Legs black. 



ELATER (CARDIOPHORUS?) PICTUS. 



Plate XLVII. fig. 3. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Scrricornes. Family: Elateridae. 



Genus. Elater, Linn. Sfc. (Subgenus: Cariliophoms, Eschsch.''.) 



Elater (Cardiophorus?) Pictus. Fulvus, antennis nigris serratis, thorace elytrisque nigro-lineatis et undulatis, 

 his etiam macula utrinque triangulari nigril. (Long. Corp. 9 lin. ) 



Syn. Elater pictus, Dritry, App.vol. 3. Sclionh. Syn. Ins. 3. 277. 



Habitat : Coast of Africa. 



Head yellow-brown. Antenn* deeply serrated and black, being shorter than the thorax. Ihorax 

 yellow-brown, with several black longitudinal streaks. Scutellum very small and yellow bi'own. 

 Elytra of the same colour, with several faint black marks thereon, particularly two situated near the 

 middle of a triangular shape, and reaching to the sides ; they are a little striated, and tenninate 

 in four blunt spines, two to each. Beneath of a greyer colour than on the upper side. Sternum 

 remarkably large. 



