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punctato, basi obsolete canaliculato cum capite nigro-pilo- 
80 elytrisque coccineis apice nigro ab affinibus optime di* 
stinguendus. Caput pcothorace duplo angustius, nutans, 
fronte fortiter crebreque punctata. nigro-pilosa, leviter con- 
vexa, antice supra labrum prominente. Antennse nigrse, 
articulis 2:o et 3:o piceis, 3:o oblongo-obconico, 2;o sub- 
transverso fere duplo longioro, 4 — 10 triangularibus, com- 
pressis. Prothorax latitudine sua longior, antice parum 
angustatus, apice late emarginatus, angulis anticis subpro- 
ductis, posticis spiniforraibus, carina acuta, margini baud 
parallela instructis; lateribus postice baud sinuatis, linea 
marginali distiucta; basi transversim impressus, striga ba- 
sali prope angulos posticos nulla; disco parum convexus, 
ante basin breviter obsoleteque canaliculatus, creberrime 
fortiterque punctatus, pilis nigris erectis dense vestitus ; 
niger, parum nitidus. Scutellum obloiigo-ovale, basi trun- 
catum, punctatissinum, nigrum. Elytra protborace baud 
triplo longiora, apicem versus subangustata, dorso parum 
convexa, coccinea, apice margineque basali summo nigris ; 
fortiter punctato-striata, interstitiis paniusculis, fere biseri» 
atim puncta, fusco-pilosa, margine antico laterali et epi* 
pleuris flavo-pilosa. Corpus subtus dense fusco-sericeo- 
pubescens, confertim punctatum , nigrum. Pedes nigri , 
tarsis piceis. 
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der barken af löfträd. 
4. E. sanguinolentus : Ater, protborace antrorsum angu- 
stato, subtransverso, convexo, crebre et fortiter, disco 
posteriore paullo parcius punctato capiteque pilis fu- 
scis et pallidis comraixtis vestitis; elytris coccineis, 
macula media communi suturali elongata nigra, forti- 
ter punctato-striatis. Long. 3^ — 4 lin. 
V. Kiesenw. Natnrg. d. Ins, Deuts. 340. 5. 
Elater sanguinolentus Schrank. Ent. Beitr. I. 60. Tab 
3. fig. 15. 
Elater ephippium Gyll. Ins. Sv. I. 416. 45, 
