ELATERID.'E.— ANATIIIIOTUS. 27? 



and all the angles rufo-testaceous : elytra pale testaceous, with the suture and 

 lateral margins more or less broadly fuscous- black, and sometimes nearly 

 concolorous: body beneath pitchy-fuscous, with the margin and apex rufo- 

 testaceous : legs pale testaceous : antenna; more or less testaceous at the base, 

 the apex black. 

 Variable in the intensity of its colours, being sometimes of a fuscous-black. 



Also somewhat uncommon within the metropolitan district, but 

 abundant towards the west of England, especially in the New 

 Forest, and in Somersetshire. " Found by Mr. Jeffreys lying dead 

 in considerable numbers among- rubbish left by the tide on the 

 shore, at the confluence of the Neath river with the sea." — L. W. 

 Dillwijn, Esq. 



Sp. 9. angularis. Oblongus,fusco-piceus,pubescens, thorace breviori, subconvexo, 

 angulis posticis rufis, elytrisfuscis, striatis, pedibus antennisque rujis. (Long, 

 corp. 5 lin.) 



N.G. angularis. Steph. Catal. 127. No. 1288 ; dele El. e?*ythrogonus. Midler? 



Oblong; pitchy-brown, slightly glossy and pubescent: thorax rather short, 

 somewhat convex, with the posterior angles very short, rufous or rufo-testa- 

 ceous ; elytra rather deep fuscous, clothed with a griseous pubescence, punctate- 

 striate, the interstices convex and finely punctulate: body beneath rufo- 

 piceous: legs and antennas rufous; the latter with the second and third joint 

 somewhat elongate, slender. 



This insect is evidently not the El. erythrogonus of Midler, that having the 

 second and third joints of the antennae short and nodose. 



I have a pair of this distinct species, which were captured in 

 Devonshire. 



Sp. 10. longicollis. Niger, punctatissimus, thorace angusto linear i-elongato , 

 elytris testaceis, suturd margineque nigris. (Long. corp. 4g — 5^ lin.) 



El. longicollis. Fabricius. — N. G. longicollis. Steph. Catal. 127. No. 1293. — 

 El. marginatus. Martyn, pi. 31. f. 15. 



Head black, forehead deeply excavated : thorax elongate, with an abbreviated 

 dorsal sulcus and two posterior foveola: ; black, with the lateral margins and 

 posterior angles testaceous : scutellum black : elytra broader than the thorax, 

 rather deeply punctate-striate, with the interstices convex, pale-testaceous, 

 with the outer margins rather broadly dusky, and the suture more or less 

 black : body fuscous, with the margins of the segments rufescent : legs testa- 

 ceous, with the femora sometimes fuscescent: antenna? black. Female with 

 the thorax less elongate than in the male, slightly globose; the elytra rather 

 broader, and the antenna? a little rufescent. 



Var. /3. Rufo-testaceous, with the eyes black. 



Common at Darenth and Coombe-woods, also throughout the 



