COLEOPTEBA.—LEA. 197 



Subfamily LAMPYRIDES. 



The fireflies of Australia, on the whole, have not been carefully collected, 

 and of many of the species only males are known ; with some species the female 

 is much like the male, except on the under surface ; on the female of Atyphella 

 sdntillans there are no flight wings, and the elytra are greatly abbreviated, 

 and in Queensland there is at least one species with a larva-like female/ 

 The species are as follows : — 



Both Sexes Knoivn. 



Atyphella lychnus Oil. L. humilis Oliv. 



A. scintillans Oil. (decora Oliv.). L. platygasterljedi. 



Luciola complicata Lea. L. pudica Oil. 



L.flavicolUs Mad. {coarcticollis Oliv., 

 gestroi Oliv.). 



Male only Known. 



A. atra Lea. L. cowleyi Blackb. (abundant). 



A. hrevis Lea (abundant) L. dejeani Gemm. [apicalis Boi.) 



A. flammans Oil. , L. inconspicua Lea. 



A. oUvieri hea (abundant). L. majuscula Lea. 



L. costata Lea. 



Not Identified in Australian Collections. 



L. anstralis Fab. {guerini Cast., nigripennis Latr.). 



LUCIOLA INCONSPICUA sp. nov. 



(J Of a dingy brown ; head and three basal segments of abdomen black, 

 prothorax (one large and some smaller spots excepted), seutellum, and j)arts of 

 legs of a rather dingy flavous, two apical segments of abdomen white. 



Head largely concave and with numerous punctures between eyes. 

 Antennas with third joint slightly shorter than fourth, and slightly shorter and 

 thinner than second. ProtJiorax about twice as wide as long, apex obtusely 

 produced in middle, a large depression on each side, smaller ones in middle of 

 base, median line distinct ; punctures crowded and in places subasperate. Elytra 

 parallel-sided to near apex, each with two distinct discal costie, thickened much 

 like the suture but becoming thinner posteriorly ; punctures crowded and some- 

 what smaller than on prothorax. Length, 5-6 mm. 



Hah. — Queensland: Cairns district (E. Allen ).-^Type, /, 11845 in South 

 Australian Museum ; cotype, C/2289 in Queensland Museum. 



Mr. Allen obtained twenty-eight specimens, all males ; at first glance they 

 look close to L. cowleyi, but differ in being slightly narrower, prothoracic mark- 

 ings as an isolated spot no wider than the interocular space, and usually narrower, 

 a minute spot on each side, and two or four minute ones at the base ; basal 

 segments of abdomen black, and the two apical segments white on both surfaces. 



^Mr. E. Allen sent two specimens of it from Cairns. They are much like small females 

 of the European Larapyris noctiluca, but as its male is unknown I have not named it. 



