This figure has been usually cited as the Elater flabellicornis Linn., the habitat of which is said to be India, whereas the real habitat of Drury's insect, as confirmed by Afzelius and De Jean, is Sierra Leone and Guinea. This insect was sometimes found by Mr. Smeathman in the evenings, having flown into the houses, to which it was attracted by the lights.
ELATER (AGRYPNUS) QUADRI-MACULATUS.
Plate [XLVII]. fig. 2.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Serricornes. Family: Elateridæ.
Genus. Elater, Linn. &c. (Subgenus: Agrypnus, Eschscholtz.)
Elater (Agrypnus) Quadri-maculatus. Cinereus, thoracis punctis quatuor, elytris fasciis duabus undulatis nigris. (Long. Corp. 9 lin.)
Syn. Elater quadri-maculatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 1. II. p. 219. 14. Syst. Eleuth. II. p. 224. 13. Oliv. Ent. II. 31. p. 20. t. 8. f. 79. Herbst. Col. x. p. 105. t. 168. f. 3. Klug Ermann's Voy. App. p. 31. pl. 15. f. 3.
Elater fasciatus, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Habitat: Coast of Africa (Drury). "In Africa æquinoctiali" (Fabr.).
Head grey. Antennæ serrated and black; much shorter than the thorax, which is grey, with two small round black spots on the middle, and two square ones next the scutellum, which is black, surrounded by a patch of the same colour. Elytra grey, with two waved irregular bands crossing them, one near the middle, the other near the tips. Beneath black, and, when viewed through a microscope, appearing to be powdered as it were with grey. Legs black.