INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 42. Elater. 385 



BupreJIoides Cylindrical, black immaculate: head retra&ed. 

 Inhabits Saxony, middle-fized. - . 

 Head drawn in under the thorax. : Jhells Ihghtly ftriate. 



Pygmaus. Black, opake: fhanks piceous. 



Inhabits Germany, in decayed trees; very fmall. 



Notatus. Thorax rufous with 2 black dots : (hells rufous at the bafe, 

 the tip black with 2 white fpots ; 



Inhabits Coromandel. 



Head black : front with cinereous hairs : thorax rufous with 2 

 black fpots on the fore -part furrounaed with a downy cinere- 

 ous ring: /hells ftriate, rufous at the bafe, black beyond the 

 middle with 2 tranfverfe white fpots : abdomen black with a 

 cinereous glofs: thighs black, xhzjhanks palifh. 



Feiivwi, Thorax ferruginous : mells black with 2 yellowifh bands* 

 Inhabits Egypt,. Ford. Nov. Spec. 3, 64.. fg. 74. fmall. 

 Head brown : thorax reddifh : jhells itriate. 



I'pujlulatus Black, polifhed: fhells with a red dot at the bafe. 



Inhabits woods of Germany. Oli<v. Inf. 31 tab. 2. fig. 1 3, 

 Varies in having the bafe of the jhells fometimes red, but the 

 future is always black. 



4-pufuIatus Black ; (hells ftriate, with 2 teflaceous dots. 

 Inhabits Saxony ; very fmall. 

 Head and thorax black immaculate : body black : legs teftaceous* 



Striatums* Black, opake : fhells ftriate, the ftriae fubpubefcent : tail 

 bearded with down. 

 Inhabits Surinam. Elater (hiatus. Gme tin. p. 1 904. 



Virefcens. Thorax green with a groove down the middle : fhells yellow 

 'mucronate with a greenifh-black oblong fpot at th.r 

 -tip. 

 Inhabits Aujlria. El. caftaneus. Schrank. Inf. Auft. n. 237. 



Europxus. Thorax and fhells black-blue: body and legs black. 

 Inhabits Europe. Sulz. Hijl. Inf. tab* 6.fg. 8. 

 Is probably only a variety of Elater seneus. 



Tttrafichon Black fpotted with yellow: fhells with confluent fpots: 

 abdomen with 4 dots. 

 Inhabits Africa-, middle-fized. 



Vol. II, — 3C Deuftut. 



