198 MEMOIFS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



The elevated parts of the elytra are usually slightly paler than the adjacent 

 surface. The species might almost as well have been referred to Atyphella 

 as to Luciola; in fact, the phosi)horescent portion of its abdomen is exactly as in 

 A. hichnus. 



ATYPHELLA ATRA sp. nov. 



(^ Black : margins of prothorax, and an oblique line on each side of and 

 connected with the base, scutellum, and greater portion of legs of a dingy 

 fiavous ; two apical segments of abdomen white. - 



Head almost entirely concealed from above; deeply concave, highly 

 polished and with small punctures between eyes. Antennae with third joint 

 thinner and slightly longer than second and fourth, sixth to tenth slightly 

 transverse. Protliorax about thrice as wide as long, sides strongly rounded and 

 'increasing in width to base; surface uneven and with fairly large, shallow, 

 crowded punctures. Elytra rather Avide. sides feebly dilated, each with three 

 discal costa?, of which the two inner ones are long and almost as stout as the 

 sutural thickening, the other is finer, submarginal, almost as distant from the 

 second as the second is from the suture, commences near the shoulder (this con- 

 siderabl}^ thickened and slightly paler than the adjacent surface), and terminates 

 before the others; punctures dense, sharply defined and somewhat smaller than 

 on prothorax. Abdomen with first white segment slighth" more than half the 

 length of the preceding one, the following seginent considerably longer, with its 

 tip produced in middle. Legs thin, but rather short. Length, 6-5-7 mm. 



Ilah. — Queensland: National Park in November (H. Hacker). — Type, 

 C/2290 in Queensland Museum; cotype, /. 12282 in South Australian Museum. 



The interocular space and the abdomen (except the two apical segments) 

 are of an intense black, the other black parts have a more or less brownish tinge ; 

 the pale margins of the prothorax are very distinct, at the base from each side 

 the elevated part curves round and is directed obliquely inwards for a short 

 distance, but the base between has also a pale marginal strip. Structurally it 

 is close to ^1. hrevis and ^1. edivieri ; Mr. Hacker obtained tv.elve specimens, all 

 males. 



ATYPHELLA SCINTILLANS Oil. 



Mr. H. J. Carter sent for examination a pair of this species, 

 taken in cop. on Bunya JNIountain. The female is almost entirely 

 pale (the antennae and elytra are slightly infuseated only), the 

 abdomen has a mottled appearance, as if the phosphorescent 

 material had been irregularly scattered through it (but no doubt 

 would look different on living specimens). The prothorax is 

 slightly larger than on the male, and has the sides and apex 

 conjoined to form an almost perfect semicircle, but the base is 

 somewhat sinuous, the elytra (each of which has two discal costae) 

 are very short, being less than their combined width ; they leave 

 six abdominal segments exposed and most of the preceding one. 

 Fig. 1. — Atyphella 

 scintillans Oil. 



