48 TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES. 



mens sent are males, the female remaininj^- unknfiwn owing to some peculiarity 

 in habit. 



8. Cladodes iiigricollia, Gorham, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1880, \>. 8. 

 Huh. Hacienda of Guachala (9217 feet). Three examples. 



Ater, opacus, thorace brevi, semicirculari, disco subdepresso ; elytris 

 croceis, postice attenuatis, triente apicali nigro, tarsis subtiis griseo-pubes- 

 centibiis, unguibiis rufis. Long. 15 millim. ^. See Figure on p. 47. 



Of this species I have before only seen one specimen — the tyj)e which is 

 now in the Brussels Museum and was obtained in Ecuador ; and I can only 

 identify it by memory and from my descrij)tion. I have therefore made a 

 rather longer diagnosis from the three specimens taken by Mr. Whymper. 

 Xot having before seen Lampijridce from such a high elevation, it is a most 

 interesting addition to our knowledge of this genus. This species is not very 

 nearly allied to any of its congeners, but is nearest to a Chilian species. 



9. Photinus longi'pemiis, ]\Iots. Etud. Ent., ii, p. 37 ; Gorli., Trans. Ent. Soc, 



1880, p. 24. 



Hub. Corredor Machai, Sara-urcu (12,700 feet) (^ , and La Dormida, 

 Cayambe (11,800 feet) $. Two specimens. 



A common Colombian insect. The females have shortened elytra, and 

 are much rarer in collections than the males. 



Photinus, Castelnau, is a New World genus and evidently one of laige 

 extent. The Central American species enumerated in Godman and Salvin's 

 " Biologia " alone reach about fifty, but tliis number will convey a very 

 imperfect idea of the Tropical South American species, when they shall be 

 Avoiked up. They are known by their ovate form, simple antenna), and 

 often highly luminous abdominal segments. The species recorded here is 

 one of the largest. 



10. Crutomorphus discomfus, Kirsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1865, p. 72. 



Hah. Nanegal (3-4000 feet). One example. Previously obtained in 

 Colombia. 



The character which distinguishes the sj)ecimen o1)tained by Mr. 

 Whymper, and which is a male, is that the seventh ventral segment is 

 excavated on its apical margin, disclosing a short small eighth segment, and 

 the pygidium bi'oadly truncate very faintly bisinuate. It is undou])tc(ny 

 very near the species which I have identified with G. fuscipennis, Mots., and 

 I have received that species from Peru. It is, however, rather moie con- 

 tracted towards the apex of the elytra than is usual in that species. 



