4 LUCIOLA LATICOLLIS. 



2. Luciola laticollis , sp. n. 



Nigro-fuscus , subniticlus; capite nigro, crebre punctato; 

 prothorace brevi, transverso, fèrrugineo, disco late nigro, 

 valcle convexo , canaliculato ; elytris piceis , limbo toto 

 tenuissime flavo ; scutello pallido . Abdomine plumbeo , seg- 

 mentis duobus ultimis albidis. — Long 6 — 6 V2 niillim. (ƒ. Q. 



Hah Java: Bodjonegoro (Piepers). 



I cannot find a description of any species of Luciola 

 from Java , whicb could at all accord with tliis little insect. 

 It is most like some of the African species such as L. 

 caffra , h. Dregei. The broad punctured thorax with a 

 large , but variable , black discoidal patch , and the leaden 

 black elytra with narrow pale margins will sufiiciently 

 distinguish it. The legs are pale with dark tarsi, and the 

 anterior tibiae are also dark. 1 have seen seven specimens 

 of this: five (ƒ , and two 9* The females have the tho- 

 races wider and even more convex than the males. 



Shipley near Horsham, July 16th, 1882. 



Change of name in the Lampyridae. 



I propose to call Luciola ajjinis Gorham, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. London. 1880. p. 101, n°. 3 {nee Ritsema, Tijd- 

 schr. V. Entom. XVIII (1875). p. 129, n°. 10): Luciola 

 Gorhami. 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Notes from tbe Leyden Museum, Vol. V. 



