INSECTS. COLEOPTERA. 42. Elater. 385 
Cylindrical, black immaculate; head retiaaed. 
Inliabits ; middle-lized. 
Head drawn in under the thorax ; Poclh llightly ftr'iate. 
Black, opake: (hanks plceous. 
Inhabits Germany, in decayed trees ; very (mall. 
'"■Vs, 
Thorax rufous with 2 black dots : (hells rufous at the bafe, 
the tip black with 2 white fpots. 
Inhabits Coromandel. 
ILnd black : front with cinereous hairs : thorax fufous with 2 
black fpts on the fore-part furrounUed with a downy cinere- 
ous ring; Jkells ftriate, rufous at the bafe, black beyond the 
middle with 2 tranfverfe white fpots : abdomen black with a 
cinereous glofs : thighs black, the Jkanks pali(h. 
'I borax ferruginous : (liclls black with 2 yellowKh bapds. 
Inhabits Egsyt,. Ford. None. Spec. 3, G^.fg. 74, fmall. 
Head brown ; thorax reddilh : Jhells (Iriate. 
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'atus 
Black, poli(hcd: (liells vtuth a red dot at the bafe. 
Inhabits woods of Germany. Oliao. Inf. 31 tah. 2. fig. 13. 
Varies in having the bafe of the fnells (ometimes red, but the 
future is always black. 
'Vr, 
Black ; fliells (Irlatc, with 2 tedaceous dots. 
Inhabits Saxony ; very fmall. 
Head and thorax black immaculate: body black: legs tedaceous. 
Black, opake : (Jiclls ftrlatc, the (Irix fubpubefeent 3 tail 
bearded with down. 
Inhabits Surinam: Elater driatus; Gmclin. p. 1 904. 
Thorax green with a groove down the middle : (hells yellow 
nuicronate with a greenilh-black oblong fpot at the 
tip. 
Inhabits Aujlria. F.l. cadaneus. Sehrank. Inf. A'ujl. n. 237. 
Thorax anil (hells black-bluc: body and legs black. 
Inhabits Europe. Sulz. Ilijl. Inf. tab. G. fig. 3. 
is probably only a variety of Elater teneus. 
Black fpotted with yellow: (hells With confluent fpots: 
abdomen with 4 dots. 
Inhabits Africa ; middle-fized. 
Vol, II.— 3C 
Deujlut. 
