Elytra

The Elytra would open the wings, and the legs would move, as by association they had moved in the perfect insect.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

Elytra: the anterior leathery or chitinous wings of beetles, serving as coverings to the secondaries, commonly meeting in a straight line down the middle of dorsum in repose: also applied to the tegmina in

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

[I] Elytra is derived from a Greek word, [Greek: elytrou], a sheath.

Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863

Elytra with two rows of spines close to the suture, and another close to the edge, where the dilated part commences: the central rows of spines are not continued to the tip, the spines being placed irregularly; they are also much larger than those of the side row.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

Elytra atra nitida ftriato - punctata ma - cula apicis teftacea.

Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten 1796

Elytra atia fubcomentofa feu fu - gaei grifeo nitentia, ftriata punctis interiertis.

Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten 1796

Elytra punctato - ftriata, atra nitida, punctisque aliquot dorfaiibus imprefla.

Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten 1796

Elytra atra laevia punctis per lineas longitudinales impreflis, apice deflexa.

Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten Sturm, Jakob, 1771-1848, ill 1796

Elytra fennginea punctato ftriata: nigredo thoracis fae - pius elytiorum bafin inquicat.

Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten 1796

Elytra nigra: bafi angulo exteriore ma - cula magna, rufa, quae tamen marginem interiorem haud at - tingit.

Monographia Staphylinorum sveciae Gustaf von Paykull 1789