revision of the Lampyridcc. 93 



Head black, eyes moderate, antenna of normal length, 

 i.e. reaching to about the middle of the meta-sternum, 

 serrate. Thorax rather small and short, without dia- 

 phanous areolets, base nearly straight, hind angles scarcely 

 produced. Elytra with a rather wide yellow margin nar- 

 rowing towards the apex, where it vanishes. Suture very 

 narrowly yellow at the base. 



Ceylon ; coll. Gorham. 



Pyrocoelia plagiata, n. sp. 



Nigro-fusca, opaca, prothorace elytrisque flavis, his 

 plagiii nigro-fumosfi, in medio incipiente ad apicem latiore. 

 Long. lin. 8^. ^ . 



Head and eyes small, retracted within the thorax ; 

 antennre of normal form and length, the joints from the 

 third, sub-quadrate and not strongly dentate, only a little 

 acuminate internally. Thorax with the front margin 

 reflexed, but not strongly, nor with diaphanous areolets ; 

 hind angles a little acute. Elytra four times the length of 

 the thorax, the suture and two nervures finely raised, with 

 a long apical, black plagia commencing in a point about 

 the middle of the disc and widening till it occupies the 

 whole apex. Abdomen fuscous black with the exception of 

 the two diaphanous segments. 



Hah. .' — Mus. Brus. India ? 



Pyroccelia fumigata, n. sp. 



Testacea, capite, antennis, abdominis segmentis tribus, 

 elytris retrorsum, pedibusque fumeo-nigris. 

 Long. lin. 8. (^. 



Thorax with the front a little raised, plain at the sides 

 and hind angles, which are right angles but rounded. The 

 elytra are a good deal rounded at the sides, ovate, with very 

 slight traces of two costre. Head black, eyes moderate, 

 antenna3 about as long as the loldth of the thorax. Apex 

 of the abdomen whitish yellow. 



Malacca ; Siam ; coll. Gorh. 



Pyroccelia FoocJiowensis, n. sp. 



Testacea, opaca, sub-parallela, capite, antennis, abdo- 

 minis segmentis quatuor, pedibus, elytrisque nigro-fuscis ; 

 his sutura marginibusquc conjunctim, illis femoribus flavis. 



Long. lin. 8. ^, 



