376 INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 42. Elatcr. 



Striatus. Body brown ; fhells Itriate. 

 Inhabits the IJland Rwfale. 

 Stockb. Trans. 1786. tab. S.fig. 3 — 5. 



Found on old wooden buildings in the evening in Autumn, and is 

 about the fize of Elater aterrimus. 



Laevigatas. Body b j ack . ft lel]s f moot h. 



Inhabits Europe. Stockb. Trans. 1786. 4. p. 2S0. 



42. ELATER. Antennae filiform, lodged 

 in a groove under the head and thorax: 

 under fide of the thorax terminating 

 in an elaftic fpine, placed in a cavity 

 of the abdomen ; by which means the 

 body, when placed on the back, fprings 

 up and recovers its natural pofture. 



A. Feelers hatchet-Jhaped. 



riuUUicor- Brown; antenna? with a fan-fhaped tuft of 8 large black 

 nis. leaves. 



Inhabits India. Olinj. In.. 31. tab. ^.fg. 28. Very large. 



Fafcicuiarix Thorax moufc-colour : fhells pale with waved brown 

 {freaks : antennas with a fan-ihaded tuft. 

 Inhabits America. Oli<v. bis. 31. tab. 5. fig. 56. 

 Antennae black : JJiel/s ftriate : body moufe-colour : legs piceous. 



Sptciofus. White fpotted with black. 



Inhabits India. Qli<v.Ins. $l.tab. 7. fig. 70. 

 Antenna: fhort black. 



luridus. Downy cinereous : (hells fubftriate : ends of the legs black. 



Inhabits Coromandel. Qli<v. Ins. 31. tab. 5. fig. 57. 

 Body large; thorax punctured. 



Foveatus. Black ; thorax with 2 imprefTed white dots : fhells ftriate. 

 Inhabits Guinea ; legs brown. 



Oculatus* Th'orax with 2 black ocellate fpots : body black fpotted 

 with white. 

 Inhabits North America. O'Hi-. Inf. 31. tab. 3. fig. 34. 



