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raised at the base, but the fourth especially is carinate at the 

 shoulders and there overlaps the margin. 



A considérable séries of spécimens were obtained. 



Subfam. LAMPYRID^. 



The Lampyridee of our Indian Empire are only just beginning 

 to be worked ont, and of them the Luciolœ and allied gênera, are 

 hardly yet comprehended, and will reqaire some revision before 

 we can compare them with those of other régions. The following 

 is a list of those at présent adequately described. 



i. Pyrophanes indica Mots. Etud. Ent., III, 1854, p. 53 {Luciola). 

 The genus Pyrophanes is proposed by E. Oliv., Mus. civ. di Genova, 

 1885, p. 368, and includes four other species from New Gruinea, 

 and A ru, the Philiipine Isles and Gelebes. The genus is separated 

 on account of the form of the apical segment of the maie, that of 

 P. similis from Gelebes being figured, t. 5, f. 12. I possess it 

 without spécial locality, and also idenlify spécimens from the 

 Andaman Isles with it. 



2. Pteropteryx malaccœ Gorh. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1880, p. 101 

 {Luciola). 



Pteropteryx is a genus described by Olivier in his late Catalogue 

 of Luciolœ and allied gênera, printed at Moulins, 1902, for those 

 species which hâve the elytra of the maies plicate at the apex, 

 sometimes covering the apical segment beneath. It at présent 

 only includes this insect and L. testacea Mots. 



3. Pteropteryx testacea Mots. Eludes Ent., 1854, p. 48; E. Oliv., 

 Ann. Mus. civ. Gen., 1885, p. 357, identifies a species from Bornéo 

 with this, but Mots, gives « Indes orientales » as its habitat; and 

 the species I possess from Martapura, S. E. Bornéo, appears to me 

 to agrée with Olivier's figure of G. prœusta; but I think is referred 

 to the L. prœusta of Escholz in error. I hâve not yet seen an insect 

 from India that I can refer to L. testacea Mots. 



4. Luciola acerra Gorh. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1895, p. 304. 



5. L. complanata Gorh. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1895, p. 304. 



6. Luciola gigas E. Oliv. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1888, p. 100, 

 t. l,f. 8. 



7. Luciola vespertina Fab. Syst. El., II, p. 103; Mots. (Forster?) 

 loc. cit., p. 49; Gorh., Tr. Ent. Soc. 1880, p. 100. 



8. Luciola Gorhami Ritsema. Notes from Leyden Mus., V, 1883, 

 p. 4. 



L. affijiis Gorh. (nec Rits.) Tr. Ent. Soc, 1880. 



