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13. ELATER APPRESSUS. 
E. corpore sub-dilatato, brevi ; capite punctulato ; antennis serratis, 
articulis ith rig sis; thorace brevi, nigro, latere margineque an- 
o rufo-sanguineis ; wenn ovato; elytris pallidis, striatis, punc- 
tulatis. utrinque, maculis tribus nigris, interruptis ; sutura nigra. 
Body dilated, rather short and thick: head black, 
punctured, antenne black, serrated, joints considerably 
flattened ; thorax gently curved upon the sides, a little nar- 
rowing before, minutely punctured, margined anteriorly 
and laterally with reddish sanguineous ; posterior angles 
sub-acute, directed only slightly outwards; posterior 
margin somewhat curved to admit the bases of the elytra, 
to which it is rather closely pressed : scutel ovate, black ; 
elytra yellowish, testaceous, moderately striated and 
punctured, and marked with three irregular interrupted, 
blackish spots, one extending from the humerus down- 
wards and somewhat inwards, one on the middle some- 
what fasciate, and one below the middle ; suture black ; 
apex moderately acute: thighs blackish: tibie and tarsi 
subfuscous. 
Length about four tenths of an inch. 
Seems allied to the E. hieroglyphicus, (H. Cat.) 
The intervals between the elytral spots in my speci- 
men, being a little darker, seems to indicate that they 
may be sometimes all connected in one longitudinal vitta. 
14. ELATER FILIUS. 
. eorpore nigro, elongato; antennis serratis; thorace subtilissimé 
punctulato, longitudine dimidio latitudinem vacan basi utrinque 
impressa, marginbus propà parallelis, angulis posticis obtusis. Ely- 
tris striatis, subtilissimé punctulatis, et rugosis : niis piceis. 
