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Observations on the various Insects 
very short ash- coloured depressed hairs, marbled with brown, 
more or less ochreous, and is thickly and minutely punctured. 
Antennae shorter than the thorax, rather stout, and eleven-jointed, 
bright ferruginous, basal jnint stout, oblong, and piceous ; 2nd, 
small, semiovate ; 3rd, smaller, pear shaped ; 4th and six fol- 
lowing compressed, produced internally, obtrlgonate, apical joint 
longer, ovate, the apex suddenly narrowed (fig. b) ; head semi- 
orbicular, depressed ; eyes scarcely visible ; thorax twice as 
broad, orbicular, convex on the back, with two tubercles on the 
disc; beneath are two deep fissures to receive the antennae, and 
the pectoral spine is long and attenuated, the apex subulate ; 
scutel ovate-conic ; elytra a little broader than the thorax, and 
more than twice as long, hinder portion attenuated, the apex 
rounded, sloped suddenly towards the thorax at the base ; there 
are nine indistinctly punctured striae on each, and the costal 
margin is deeply emarginate to receive the hinder thighs ; wings 
ample ; legs short and shining pitchy ; the tips of the thighs and 
the tarsi fulvous — the latter are five-jointed and tapering, basal 
joint the stoutest and the longest in the hinder pair ; claws mode- 
rate and acute; tibiae rough, with series of minute bristles ; length 
6, breadth 2^ lines, sometimes much larger. 
7. This species of Click-beetle is sometimes abundant in corn- 
fields, also in hedges and grassy places, in May and two suc- 
ceeding months ; but as the Wneworm lives in decaying tiees, it 
is not likely to do any mischief to the crops. It is named 
Elater (Melanotus) fulvipes, Hcrhst, the tawny-legged Click- 
beetle; it is also called by Marshain E. castanipes — a more appro- 
priate name, as its legs are of a chesnul colour. It is very long, 
narrow, and shining black, thickly punctured, and clothed with 
very short fine ochreous pubescence ; antennae as long as the 
thorax, compressed, pubescent, fulvous, and eleven-jointed ; basal 
joint stout and subpyriform ; 2nd, minute, nearly globose ; 3rd, 
small obovate ; 4th and six following, produced internally, obtrl- 
gonate, but slightly decreasing in diameter to the apical joint, 
which is spindle-shaped (fig. c) ; mouth pale ferruginous, the 
labrum and tips of mandibles piceous ; head rather broad, semi- 
orbicular ; the eyes hcinisj)licrical ; clypeus forming a sharp pro- 
jecting shelf over the mouth ; thorax convex, somewhat semiovate, 
almost straight before, the base nearly straight also, the angles 
forming rather narrow lobes, appearing pointed above, but trun- 
cated laterally ; there is a dorsal impression broadest at the base, 
and a short longitudinal channel on each side, close to the lobes; 
the pectoral spine is rather long and narrow ; scutel tongue-shaped ; 
elytra thrice as long as the thorax, but not broader, linear, the 
apex subovate, they are more finely punctured than the thcnax, 
and there are nine punctured striae on each ; costal margin gently 
