ELATER (CARDIOPHORUS?) PICTUS.
Plate [XLVII]. fig. 3.
Order: Coleoptera. Section: Serricornes. Family: Elateridæ.
Genus. Elater, Linn. &c. (Subgenus: Cardiophorus, Eschsch.?)
Elater (Cardiophorus?) Pictus. Fulvus, antennis nigris serratis, thorace elytrisque nigro-lineatis et undulatis, his etiam maculâ utrinque triangulari nigrâ. (Long. Corp. 9 lin.)
Syn. Elater pictus, Drury, App. vol. 3. Schonh. Syn. Ins. 3. 277.
Habitat: Coast of Africa.
Head yellow-brown. Antennæ deeply serrated and black, being shorter than the thorax. Thorax yellow-brown, with several black longitudinal streaks. Scutellum very small and yellow brown. Elytra of the same colour, with several faint black marks thereon, particularly two situated near the middle of a triangular shape, and reaching to the sides; they are a little striated, and terminate in four blunt spines, two to each. Beneath of a greyer colour than on the upper side. Sternum remarkably large.
ELATER (SEMIOTUS) LIGNEUS.
Plate [XLVII]. fig. 4.