24 Rev. H. S. Gorliam's materials for a 



IV.— CASTELNAU. 



Photinus modestus, Cast. Essai Ann. Fr. ii. p. 138. 



\^Lzicidota.'\ 



Brazil ; coll. Gorh., e Murray. 



Very miicli of the size and form of Alecton discoidalis. 

 Doubtfully of this genus, but not a Lucidota. 



V. -OTHER AUTHORS. 



Photinus longipennis, Mots. Etud. Ent. ii. p. 37. 



Columbia. $. All collections. $. Mus. Brus., and 

 Gorh. (Plate, fig. 13.) 



The ? has short elytra and the abdomen enlarged. 



Photinus lunifer, Esch. Ent. i. p. 22. 

 Brazil; coll. Chev., Gorham, Mus. Brus. 



Photinus cinctus, Mots. Etud. Ent. ii. p. 37, nee Fab. 



Columbia; Mus. Brus. [Guer. Men.] 

 Length 8 lines. Near longipennis. Gemminger has 

 renamed it circumcinctus. Col. Heft. vi. 1870. 



Photinus coronatus, Chev. in litt. 



Broad, rather pale fuscous ; elytra darker at the base, 

 the suture narrowly, the sides widely margined white ; 

 thorax with the disc convex, dark fuscous, the front and 

 lateral margin broadly white. 



Long. 6 — 7 lin. 



Columbia ; coll. Chev., Mus. Brus. 



Photinus congruus, Chev. Col. Mes. Cent. i. 

 Mexico ; coll. Chev., Mus. Brus. 



Photinus cinctellus, Chev. in litt. 



Oblongo-ovalis, fuscus, thorace nitido, disco nigro, 

 utrinque miniato, margine pallido, elytris tenuiter flavo- 

 cinctis, abdomine segmentis tribus ultimis albis. 



Long. lin. 5 — 6. $ , 2. 



i. Segmento ventrali sexto leviter exciso, sexto per- 

 brevi apicali minuto ovali. 2. Segmento sexto leviter 

 sinuato, septimo triangulari, apice exciso. 



