794 



A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



One of the more common American species (P. pyralis), Fig. 169 

 is blackish-brown with a narrow, pale yellowish line along each 

 margin of the elytra ; the thorax has a yellow margin, and a reddish 

 spot in the middle, centered with a black spot. It is about half an 

 inch long. The larvae are also luminous in this and some other 

 species, and in that state they resemble the true Glow-worms. 



Larger Fire-beetle. — Mr. Hurdis (Rough Notes, p. 329) records 



1G9 



170 



Figure 169. — Fire-fly (Photinus pyralis) ; c, imago, natural size ; a, larva ; /, e, d, 

 head, under side of segment, and leg of same; b, pupa in its earth-covered 

 case; after Riley. Figure 170. — Fire-fly (Photuris Pennsylvanica) ; a. 

 imago ; b, larva of Photinus ; c, Glow-worm, adult wingless female of 

 a foreign species ; after Packard. 



seeing a large, bright, undetermined fire-fly, Aug. 14, 1850. I am 

 not aware that it has been subsequently seen or determined. The 

 common American Fire-fly rests on the under side of the leaves of 

 low shrubs, or on weeds and grass, in the day time. It would 

 undoubtedly be easy to introduce several of our southern species.* 



Buprestids; Shining Wood-borers; Flat-headed Borers. (Baprestis, 

 etc.) 



The best known example is a North American species (Ancylo- 

 cheira decora (Fabr.) Dej.= Buprestis decora Oliv.) recorded by 

 Jones in 1876. 



Chrysobothris impressa (p. 786, tig. 155, a) has been determined 

 for me by Mr. S. Henshaw from Mr. T. G. Gosling's collection. 



Elaters ; Snapping-beetles ; Skippin g '-beetles ; Click-beetles; Wire- 

 worms. 



This family is represented by several undetermined species. The 

 most common is a species of Agriotes. Perhaps it is A. mancus, 

 whose larva is a Wire-worm destructive to wheat and grass in the 

 United States. 



* For descriptions of the N. American species of this family, see Leconte, 

 Synopsis Lampyrida?, Trans. Ainer. Entom. Soc, ix, pp. 15-72, 1881. 



