ELATERID.E. — ANATHROTUS. 275 



Shining black, clothed with a fuscous down : thorax very glossy, obsoletely punc- 

 tate: elytra faintly punctate-striated, the striae deeply impressed at the base, 

 the interstices finely punctured : legs black, with the tarsi somewhat piceous. 



Generally smaller and more glossy than the following species, and clothed with 

 a fuscescent pubescence. 



A very abundant species in hedges and by the sides of woods, 

 throughout the metropolitan district, and not uncommon in other 

 parts of the country. " Epping." — Mr. Doubledai/. " Greenwich 

 Park." — Mr. Ingpen. " Bottisham, common." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 3. nigrinus. Niger, nitidus, cinereo-hirtus, thorace punctato, elytris striatis. 



(Long. corp. 6 lin.) 

 El. nigrinus. Marsham. — N. G. nigrinus. Steph. Catal. 126. No. 1281. 



Shining black, clothed with a cinereous down: thorax punctate: elytra striated, 

 the striae impunctate : antennae serrated. 



Larger and less shining than the foregoing, and clothed with a cinereous, in- 

 stead of a fuscous pubescence :— whether it be more than a variety, with the 

 pubescence bleached by age, I am unable satisfactorily to determine. 



Found in similar places with the foregoing, and not uncommonly. 

 " Among herbage (near Swansea), not uncommon." — L. W. Ditt- 

 wyn, Esq. 



% Sp. 4. varius. Niger, thoracis margine, elytrorumque basi fascidque posticd 



villoso-Jlavescentibus. (Long. corp. 5| lin.) 

 El. varius. Fabricius.—'N. G. varius. Steph. Catal. 126. No. 1282. 



Black, slightly tinted with rufous : thorax canaliculate, with the sides densely 

 clothed with short, erect, flavescent hairs : elytra black, somewhat granu- 

 lated, with the base and a broad fascia at the apex clothed with flavescent 

 down : body black : legs and antennae dull ferruginous. 



I have seen but one specimen, which was taken in " Windsor 

 Forest." — J. H. Griesbach, Esq. 



B. With the second joint of the antennae somewhat obconic, sometimes not 

 much shorter than the third. 



Sp. 5. haemorrhoidalis. Nigro-fuscus , pubescens, thorace lineari elongato, 

 elytris piceis, abdominis 7narginibus anoque rufo-ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 

 6—8 lin.) 



El. haemorrhoidalis. Fabricius. — N. G. ruficaudis. Steph. Catal. 126. No. 1284. 



— El. sputator. Don. iii. pi. 96. f. 4. 



Linear-elongate ; fuscous-black, pubescent ; thorax elongate, linear, the posterior 

 angles short ; the disc slightly convex, with a very obsolete channel, clothed 

 with a depressed griseous pubescence ; black, with the hinder angles sometimes 

 slightly rufescent: elytra moderately punctate-striate, piceous or brunneous, 



