Order: Coleoptera. Section: Serricornes. Family: Elateridæ.
Genus. Elater, Linn. &c. (Subgenus: Semiotus, Eschscholtz.) Pericalus, Enc. Méth.
Elater (Semiotus) Ligneus. Ferrugineus, elytris mucronatis vittis duabus lateralibus suturâque obscurioribus, thorace lineâ mediâ nigrâ. (Long. Corp. 1 unc. 3 lin.)
Syn. Elater ligneus, Linn. Amœn. Acad. vi. p. 395. 24. Syst. Nat. 1. II. p. 652. Fabr. Syst. Eleuth. II. p. 224. No. 20. Oliv. Ent. II. 31. p. 17. t. 2. f. 15. Herbst. Col. ix. p. 339. 14. t. 158. f. 8.
Elater serraticornis, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Elater conicus, Voet Col. Ed. Panz. II. p. 110. 9. t. 42. f. 9.
Habitat: Rio Janeiro.
Head red brown. Antennæ black, shorter than the thorax, which is red-brown, with a dark longitudinal streak running along the middle from the head to the scutellum, the sides terminating in two angular points. Scutellum small and brown. Elytra red-brown, marginated and ending in two spines; they are a little striated, with three longitudinal streaks of a dark brown colour; one in the middle along the suture, the others on each side. Breast and base of the abdomen red-brown colour; hinder part of the latter is darker, having two oval spots of a lightish colour near the anus.
ELATER (SEMIOTUS) SUTURALIS.
Plate [XLVII]. fig. 5.