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TAB. LXXII. 

 ELATER cbalybcus. 



Class 5 . Insecta. Order i . Coleoptera. 



Spec. Char. jSlneous, with a purple tint. An- 

 tennae of the male pectinated. Thorax channelled. 



Syn. Elater cupreus, var. Fab. Ent. Syst. em. ii. 

 225. 37 ? Panz. Faun. Germ. init. 77. t. 3. 

 E. pectinicornis, var. Payk. Faun. Suec. iii. 9. 

 11. ohs. 



Length f 6~ 



Breadth 



r ^^ 



■I of the body > Hnes. 



1 HIS beautiful Elater was taken by the Rev. James Dalton 

 of Copgrove in Yorkshire, and by him given to the Rev. 

 William Kirby, who has lent it to us to figure. 



The whole body is aeneous, with a fine tint of purple. 

 Underneath it is rather hairy. The head and thorax are 

 deeply punctated ; the latter elongated, in the disk longitu- 

 dinally elevated, with an intermediate channel. The an- 

 tennae are black, longer than the thorax, and pectinated. 

 The scutellum is rounded. Elytra striated, with obsolete 

 punctures in the striae, and punctulated interstices. 



