380 INSECTS COLEOPTERA. 42. EUtcr. 



Germanicus Brown ; fillet on the (hells and legs teftaceous. 

 Inhabits Germany ; Elater vittatus. Fabricius. 

 Antenna; piceous : head and thorax fubvillous : Jhells brown with 



a broad nearly obfolete dull teftaceous band in the middle: 



abdomen ferruginous. 



*Cupreus. Coppery ; (hells yellow on the upper half. 



Inhabits England. Oliv. Ins. 31. tab. 5. fig. 50. 

 Antennae pectinate black : jhells ftriate, teftaceous at the bafe and 

 coppery at the tip. 



*Cruciatus. Thorax black with ferruginous fides: (hells yellow with a 

 black edge and crofs. 

 Inhabits Europe. Oliv. Ins. 31. tab. 4. /;£. 40. 



Syriacus. Thorax rufous : (hells with a double white band : body 

 black. 

 Inhabits the Eali ; rather fmall. 

 Shells with a white band at the bafe and another in the middle. 



*Cafianeus. Thorax teftaceous pubefcent : (hells yellow tipt with black ; 

 body black. • 

 Inhabits Europe. Ohv. Ins. 31. tab. l-fig. 25. /. $./. 51. 



* livens. Black; thorax red glabroiu : (hells teftaceous. 



Inhabits Europe. Oliv. Ins. ^i.tab. 5. Jig. $z. 



% Mefo?nelas Thorax and margin of the (hells ferruginous : body and 



fheils black. 

 Inhabit Europe. Oliv. Ins. 51. tab. 5. fig. 54. 

 Iloppe. Euu7H. Inject. Erlang. p. 57. acei tains this to ,'be the 



female of the hit. 

 Larva filiform, 6-footed, with a horny fliicld at the tail toothed at 



the fides, and furnilhed beneath with a conic foot-like 



tubular tubercle. 



bentUollis. Linear, black: thorax and (hells rufous. 



Inhabits Germany. Faoncius. Append. 451. 



A little larger than El. linearis, thorax channelled in the 



middle, elongated each fide behind into a tooth : Jhells ilriatc : 



body black, 



* Linearis. Thorax rufous, brown in the middle: (hells" linear tefta- 



ceous. 

 Inhabits Euxope. Oliv. Ins. 31. tab. J -fig* 67. 

 Head, body zndfcutel black : mouth bale of the antennae zn&fianks 



pale. 

 Iloppe fufrcc"ts this -to be the fame as El. livens or a mere variety. 



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