ELATER (CHALCOLEPIDIUS) PORCATUS. 



Plate XLVII. fig. G. 



Order: Coleoptera. Section: Serricornes. Family: Elaterklae. 



Genus. Elater, iinji. Jj-e. (Subgenus: Chalcdlepirtius, EsofecAoHc. ) 



Elatee (Chalcolepidius) Porcatus. Virirli-a>ncus, elytris sulcatis ; sulcis villoso-albis, thoracis marginibus 

 luteis. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Elater porcatus, Fabr. Si/st. Ent. p. 211. 8. Syst. Eleuth. 11. p. 225. 26. OUv. Ent. 11. 31. p. 14. 10. 

 t. l.f. 74. Herbst. Col. ix. p. 323. t. 1.57. /. 3. Brury, App. vol. 3. 



Habitat: Bay of Honduras. 



Head dark green. Antennae black. Thorax yellow at the sides ; having a broad bar of a green 

 colour running longitudinally from the head to the hinder part, being margined with black. Elytra 

 deeply furrowed with green and yellow lines, the sides having a broad yellow stripe along them, and 

 margined with black, the extremities being round, and not ending in a spine. Breast, abdomen, and 

 legs dark green. Sternum black and large. 



FLATA ? PUPA- 



Plate XLVIII fig. 1. 



Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Homoptera. Family. Fulgoriclas. 

 Genus. Flata, Fabridus, ^-c. Aphis, Vrury. 



Flata Pupa? Corpore toto albo pulveroso vellanoso. (Long. Corp. Ins. baud declar. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Aphis lanosa, Drury, App. vol. 3. 

 Habitat : 



Head appearing united and fixed to the body, and furnished with a horny beak, about one-fourth 

 the length of the whole insect. Antennae of equal thickness, and apparently only two-jointed ; one next 

 the head, which is white, another in the middle, the extreme part being black ; the length being about 

 a tenth part of the whole insect. Body white, and covered with a very fine cottony substance. Legs 

 white at the base, the remainder black. The insect above is round, beneath flat'; a fine soft white 

 substance, like down, intermixed with hairs of different sizes, some being very small, others very coarse, 

 arises from the abdomen. 



'* I am not certain it is a complete insect." — Drury. 



This figure represents an insect belonging to the genus Plata (probably Flata 

 nigricornis from South America) in an imperfect state, being most likely a pupa. The 

 species of this genus are ascertained to be similar to this figure in their preparatory states, 

 and especially the Flata nigricornis which is represented by StoU, both in the winged and 

 apterous condition, as well as by Donovan, in his Insects of China. 



