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ELATER RUFICOLLIS. 
‘RUFOUS-NECKED ELATER, or SPRINGER BEETLE. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne filiform and lodged in a groove under the head and thorax: 
fides of the thorax terminated in an elaftic fpine placed in a cavity 
of the abdomen, by means of which the infect, when on its back, 
recovers its natural pofition. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Black and polifhed, anterior part of the thorax red 
ELATER RUFICOLLIS: niger, thorace pofterius rubro nitido. Linn. 
F'n, Suec. 794.—Labr. Sp. Inf. I. p. 270. n. 33 
— Mant. inf: I. p. 173. n. 37.— Ent. Syfi. I. b. 
227. 52. 
ELATER RUFICOLLIS: thorace rubro nitido antice nigro, elytris 
corporeque nigris. Mazjfh. Ent. Brit. T. I. 
376. n. 2. 
A rare and very pretty fpecies. Its habits are unknown. Linneus 
defcribes it as a native of Sweden. 
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