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planaia entirely yellow, closely and confluently pimcturei, nervures 

 hardly visible, legs black the front coxœ yellow, This species 

 differs from L. complanata by the elytra entirely yellow, the legs 

 black, the body black beneath, etc. iMany examples. 



The insect is of a pale straw colour, black head and antennœ the 

 apices of the tibise and the tarsi blackish, length thirteen milli- 

 mètres. L. œgrota is rather smaller, ail the examples I hâve seen 

 are females. 



3. Luciola xanthura Gorh. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1880, p. 103. Nilgiri 

 Hills; 9 ex. ^'Ç. Anamalais Hills; 2 ex. cT?- 



In this séries, the dark patch on the thorax is in most examples 

 very faint, and quite obsolète in some. The antennse tibiae and tarsi 

 are whoUy dark. The ochraceous yellow colour of the suture and 

 apex of the elytra noticed by me, is common to some other species 

 but is very noticeable in some maies in L. xanthura. 



4. Luciola complanata Gorh. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1895, p. 304. 

 Kanara. 



The two following species, are very nearly allied to this insect, 

 but are distinct. 



Luciola sudra n. sp. — L. nigripedi iterum similis et affinis, 

 elongata parallela, sordide testacea ; capite, prothoracis disco, tibiis, 

 tarsis, abdomineque plus minusve infuscatis vel nigrescentibus; 

 capite crebre distincte, prothorace confluenter, subrugose, elytris 

 nitidulis subtiliter, subseriatim punctatis, his subcostulatis, apice 

 flavis. — Long. 8-8.5 millim. (j^Ç. 



Hah. India, Nilgiri Hills, flying at night 6000 feet (H.-L. An- 

 drewes). 



Compared wilh L. nigripes this insect is easily distinguished, by 

 the generally paler colour of the body and legs; in some examples 

 the lalter are quite pale, but the thorax has an indeterminate pitchy 

 vitta, widest in front and varying in extent. The elytra are more 

 shining, and more distinctly striate; they are a little infuscate, bat 

 the scutellar région and the apices are yellow, the latler having, 

 the waxy look noticed in L. xanthura. The legs are pale al their 

 bases (in one female they are with the antennse almost entirely pale 

 brown). 



Lamprophorus nepalensis Gray. 



Hab. India, Nilgiri Hills (H.-L. Andrewes); 2 ex. 



Lamprophorus tenebrosus Walker. 



iîab. India, Nilgiri Hills (H.-L. Andrewes); 2 ex. 



Besides the brown colour of the elytra, this insect has very short 



