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scarcely longer than would reach thehind margins of the great eyes, 

 the mouthrather paler than the antennae. The prothorax, scutellum, 

 sterna, coxae, femora are pale ochraceus; the knees (faintly touched 

 above), the tibise, tarsi, abdomen (totally) and elytra dull fuscous 

 black, the fifth and sixth segments with the usual broad translu- 

 cent patches, the thorax is as wide as long, the base truncate or 

 slightly concave, the dise finely carinate. The pygidium is rather 

 deeply bisinuate. 



This is a very plain and ordinary looking species of Diaphanes, 

 but I cannot at présent identify it with any described, I hâve long 

 had an example given me by A.. E. Hudd Esq., but without more 

 précise locality than « India ». In the présent collection are about 

 a dozen spécimens, two from Reigaum, the rest from Kanara. 



41. Diaphanes planus n. sp. — Nigro-fuscus^ protJiorace 

 elytrisque pallide ochraceis. — Long. 17 millim. 



Hah. India (Mus. Calcutta, D»" J. Andersen). 



Belgaum (Andrewes). 



The whole of the body and appendages in this species are fus- 

 cous black with the exception of the thorax and elytra which are 

 ochraceous, and (of course) the diaphanous areas on the fifth and 

 sixth segments. In other respects the insect is very closely allied to 

 D. Olivieri, the form and proportions of the thorax and of the 

 elytra are the same. 



The examples from Belgaum which I refer to it are four, and 

 in them the elytra are rather more fuscous than in the spécimen 

 from the Calcutta Muséum (which I take as the type; but in the 

 darkest exaraples of D. Olivieri, the femora and coxae are still 

 ochraceous whereas in B. planus they are fuscous. 



42. Lampyris marginella Hope, in Gray's Zool. Mise. 

 Chamba, Kanara, Burma, Rangoon. 



L. marginella 9? 



Belgaum 1 ex. 



A single female spécimen, of a sordid ochraceous colour, with 

 short elytra, may be mentioned hère as possibly belonging to this 

 species, the thorax is very long and the yellow colour of the 

 whole body seem however to point to some other species. 



43. Luciola ovaïis Hope, in Gray's Zool. Mise. 

 L. circumdata Mots. 



Belgaum « July », Kanara; Burma, Rangoon, Tharrawaddy. 



A widely distributed species oecurring in North West India, 

 Burma, Sumatra, etc. 



M. Bourgeois has not adopted the narae ovalis for this insect, but 

 there is no doubt of the identification. 



