Rev. H. S. Gorham's materials for a 



Lampeocera, Castelnau. 



L. Latreillei, Kirby, Tr. Linn. Soc. xii. 387. 

 (PI. XXI. fig. 4a.) 



Brazil, $ , ^. All collections. 



Lamprocera tristior, n. sp. 



Sooty-black, tliorax with the margin reflexed, which in 

 one $ is very narrowly yellow, elytra with a narrow yellow 

 vitta from the humeral callus for two-thirds their length. 

 Luminous round spot on fifth ventral segment. 



Long. lin. 9—10. 



2 $ Brus. M., Brazil ; 1 9 Gorh., Rio Grande. 



Lamprocera prceusta, n. sp. 



Testacea, antennis, tibiis, tarsis, elytrorum apice epis- 

 ternis mesothoracis, abdominisque lateribus, et segmentis 

 tribus apicalibus, fusco nigris. 



Long. lin. 10; lat. lin. 5. 2. 



Of the form of L. Latreillei, and equal in size to small 

 females of it. I have only seen one 2 of this species, 

 which is in my collection, from that of Norris. 



Buenos Ayres. 



Lamprocera Castelnaui, Kirsch., Berl. Zeit. 1865, p. 69. 



Nigei', thorace elyti'isque brunneis, his apice late, illo 

 disco nigris, thoracis angulis posterioribus punctatis, sub- 

 fuscis. 



Long. lin. 9—11 ; lat. 5—Q. 



Of the size and form of hlattina, unlike any other 

 species in the colouring, the luminous segment in the $ 

 appears to be the seventh, in the $ , although the segments 

 are rufo-fuscous in their middle and at the sides any dis- 

 tinctly-luminous portion is not apparent. Antenna3 widely 

 flabellate in c? , pectinate in $ . 



Nova Grenada, Gorh. <J, ?. B. M. 



