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me. Were it not that more than one writer since the time of 

 Fabricius has recorded its occurrence in Australia, I should have 

 thought there was some error in regard to the locality. It may be 

 worth mentioning, as showing how easily an important omission 

 in a description may escape the attention of systematic writers, 

 that although Lampyris hicolor was redescribed by Boisduval in 

 1835, and its identity determined by Motschulsky (who referred 

 it to the genus Cratomorphus\ Gorham (who included it in his 

 genus Pyrocoelia), and E. Olivier, its measurement has nowhere 

 been recorded ; on this point the only information we have is 

 contained in the original description of Fabricius, who says 

 " Magna in hoc genere (Lamj^^ris).'' 



).n. 



(J Elongate, pale fuscous, dusky testaceous at the sides, clothed 

 with fine yellowish pubescence ; prothorax coarsely and closely 

 punctured, feebly bisinuate in front, and somewhat produced in 

 the middle ; each elytron with four conspicuous testaceous pos- 

 teriorly abbreviated costse. 



Head excavated between the eyes ; this excavation rugulose- 

 punctate behind and at the sides, shining in the middle. Antennae 

 fuscous, moderately robust, 3rd joint elongate, decidedly narrowed 

 at the base. Palpi testaceous. Prothorax broadly transverse, 

 somewhat narrowed in front, moderately convex, fuscous, with 

 the sides broadly testaceous, coarsely and closely rugulose- 

 punctate ; the anterior margin and sides strongly reflexed, the 

 former gently bisinuate, and produced to an obtuse point in the 

 middle ; posterior margin strongly bisinuate, moderately strongly 

 reflexed. Scutellum testaceous, finely and closely punctured. 

 Elytra about four times as long as the prothorax, closely and 

 moderately strongly rugulose-punctate, the suture and the narrow 



Syst. El., IL, p. 100 (1801); Boisd. Voy. AstroL, II., p. 129 (1835); 

 Cratomorphus hicolor, Mots., Etud. Ent. p. 34 (1853) ; Pyrocoelia hicolor^ 

 Gorh., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1880, p. 91; E. Oliv., Notes Leyd. Mus., 

 VIII., p. 199 (1886). 

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