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PLATE \DXXXV. 
PIG. L 
ELATER CYANEUS. 
CYANEOUS SKIPPER-BEETLE. 
COLEOPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne filiform, lodged in a groove beneath the head and thorax : 
under-fide of the thorax terminating in an elaftic fpine, lodged in a 
cavity of the abdomen, by which means when placed on the back it 
fprings up, and recovers its natural pofition. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNOMY MS. 
Entirely purplith blue and dotted: wing-cafes firiated. 
BLATER CYANEUS: totus purpureo-caeruleus punétulatus, elytris 
ftriatis, Marfh. Ent. Brit. T. I. 388. 32. 
Seetanet-1 
A rare infe&t, and which appears hitherto to have been defcribed 
enly as a Britifh fpecies. Some collectors have conceived it to be 
a fexual difference of the following kind. 
Kk 2 FIG.. 
