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PLATE DVIIL 
Eel Gu; eT. 
ELATER SANGUINEUS. 
SANGUINEOUS ELATER, OR SKIPPER BEETLE. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne filiform, lodged in a groove'under the head and thorax : 
under-fide of the thorax terminating in an elaftic fpine, placed in 2 
cavity of the abdomen, by which means when placed on the back i4 
fprings up, and recovers its natural pofition. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Deep black: wing-cafes fanguineous, and without {pots. 
-ELATER SANGUINEUS: ater elytris ftriatis fanguineis immaculatis. 
Linn. Syjt. Nat. 2. 654. 21—Fn. So. 731.— 
Gmel. 1906. 21. 
Elater nigris elytris rubris,—Le taupin a étuis rouges.- Geoff. Inf. 
DOA 31'S. 
? Elater 
