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TAB. XXVI. 
ELATER cyaneus. 
Class 7. Insecta. Order l. Coleoptera. 
Gen. Char. Antenna; filiform, often serrated. Head 
small, inserted. Thorax oblong, rather convex, 
in the front attenuated, with a prominent angle 
behind on each side. Body elongated: being 
laid on its back, it jumps by means of a mucron 
on the breast being thrown out of a foramen in 
the abdomen. 
Spec. Char. Elytra purplish blue, striated and punc- 
tulated. Thorax blue green, punctulated. 
Syn. Elater cyaneus. Marsham’s Coleopt. 388. 
This insect has been reckoned British, and is esteemed as 
such in the best works on Coleopterous Insects ; although 
a habitat has not been pointed out. It however was found 
about three years ago by our friend Mr. Dawson under a 
stone in the King’s Park at Edinburgh, and is perhaps the 
handsomest of the Elater Genus indigenous to this Island. 
Head and thorax shining blue green. Elytra bright 
blueish purple, very finely punctulated. Beneath dull green. 
Legs dull green. Antennae black. 
