Coleopterous Insects of Maine. 7 
the apex, which is much rounded: eyes black: body 
beneath piceous, profoundly punctured; a somewhat tri- 
angular space of a deeper piceous extends from the eyes 
to the sternum. 
Length about six tenths of an inch. 
Inhabits Hallowell, Me. ; rare. 
The projection of the clypeus in this species odi 
seem to refer it to the genus Campylus of Fischer, but it 
wants the prominent eyes and strangulated neck of that 
genus. 
8. ELATER ÆRARIUS. 
E. corpore subattenuato, viridi-cupreo, spond antennis serratis; 
thorace supra leviter inflato, utrinque ante n puncto impresso, 
angulis posticis atia; elytris leviter rugosis, irit, punctis sub- 
tiliter impressis. 
Body somewhat attenuated : heii green or coppery, 
somewhat semicircularly indented, deeply punctured: 
eyes, palpi and antenne blackish; the latter serrate: 
thorax not dilated, polished green, varied with coppery ; 
rather convex above, and having an indented transverse 
line on each side at base; median line impressed, 
slightly above, more deeply at base; margin very 
slightly curved; posterior angles decidedly acute; a 
little above the base on each side, is an impressed punc- 
ture more or less conspicuous: scutel ovate: elytra bril- 
liant polished green, more or less coppery, deeply stri- 
ate ; strie indistinctly and minutely punctured ; interstitial 
spaces convex, finely granulated; apex rather acute: 
body beneath coppery : feet somewhat dusky. 
Length little more than five tenths of an inch. 
