The Hijiory ^ANIMAL 8< S 3 
Elater fufco-viridi-ceneus . 
The Elater , of a mixed hr own , green , braffy colour . 
This is but a fmall fpecies: the body is oblong, and not very thick ; the male has 
the thorax and exterior wings very bright, and with a great deal of green in them, 
and the antenna? are elegantly pedinated: the female is more yellow and braffy in 
colour, and the thorax is broader, and of a gloffy colour, with more green in it than 
in the wings, and the antenna? are not pedinated. 
We find it frequently in June, in the meadows about Paddington, 
Elater niger thorace ruhro . 
The black Elater , with the thorax red* 
This is the fmalleft of all the fpecies of this genus: it is all over black, but the exterior 
wings have fomewhat of a bluifh caft in them, and are ftriated : the thorax is almofi: 
entirely red, but it’s anterior part is black : it has alfo a very flight verge of black on 
the hinder edge, toward the wings i upon the whole, tne thorax has the appearance 
of a large, red, lunulated fpot, the hollow part of which is turned toward the 
head : the antennae are black, and are not pedinated. 
This elegant fpecies is very frequent in fome of our paftures under hedges; in other 
parts of the kingdom it is very fcarce. I have a feen a great number of them nea t 
Pancras. 
Elater totus nigro fufcus. 
The Elater all over of a brownifh black. 
This is a moderately large fpecies; the body is oblong, but is lefs long in propor¬ 
tion to it’s breadth, than in the former: it*s colour is uniform throughout, and is a 
greyifh-brown, approaching to black: the head is fmall, and the exterior wings are 
fmooth, and fomewhat gloffy. 
It is not uncommon in paflures about London. Authors have called it Notopeda 
atra antennis fimpiicibus. 
The other fpecies of the Elater are, i. The Elater, with the thorax hairy, and with 
the exterior wings teftaceous, and black at the extremity. 2. The black Elater, with 
the exterior wings red. 3. The greenffh and braffy Elater, with yellow legs. 4. The 
black Elater, with blue, exterior wings. 5. The black Elater, with the exterior 
wings red in the anterior part. 6. The black Elater, with the exterior wings livid 
on the outer edge. 7. The red-breafted Elater, with grey wings. 8. The black 
Elater, with brown wings, and with the antennae and legs of a reddifh brown. 
CANTHARIS. 
HE antennae of the Cantharis are fetaceous; the exterior wings are flexile; 
the thorax is fomewhat flatted ; and the fides of the abdomen are plicated and 
papillofe. 
Cantharis cujus fcemina aptera* 
The Cantharis , the female of which has no wings. 
The male of this fpecies is a fmall beetle; it’s body is oblong and narrow, and it’s 
colour a dufky black: the female, which is the fex we moil frequently meet with, 
and which we call the Glow-worm, is a fmall, oblong-bodied Infed; and though 
flae has no wings either of the thinner, or thicker kind, yet fhews very evidently, by 
the fcutum and form of her thorax, and by the folds and wrinkles of her body, that 
fhe is of this clafs of Infeds: her body confifls of eleven joints, or has fo many inci- 
fures, the firft of which is the incumbent Clypeus of the thorax ; this is of a femi-oval 
figure, flatted, marginated, and truncated at the hinder part: the head is placed under 
this, and is very fmall; the three lafi: joints of the body are of a yellowifll colour on 
the under furface, and thefe appear ignited or flaming in the dark. 
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