revision of the Lamjiyrida'. 103 



likely that either = a species which is from Java. There are, 

 moreover, discrepancies between picticoUis and cruciata in 

 the description given by Mots. The femora in the 

 Japanese species are not yellow at the base, and the length 

 of Mr. Lewis's species is 7 lines. The male has the 

 abdomen as in cruciata, sec. Mots. The female has the 

 fifth and sixth segments yellow and short, the apical very 

 small and black. 



Mr. Lewis includes prceusta, Esch. Kies ?, cruciata, 

 Mots., lateralis, Mots., and japonica, Thun., as separate 

 species occurring in Japan, in his catalogue. There is 

 evidently some error here. The latter is given as synony- 

 mous with chinensis, Lin. in the Munich catalogue. 



Luciola vitticollis, Kies. Lewis, Cat. Coll. Jap. 1203. 



Three and a half lines long, more opaque than the pre- 

 ceding ; thorax even, not channelled, rosy, Avith a broad 

 vitta, widest at the apex and base. 



Japan [Lewis]; coll. Gorh. 



Luciola ovalis, Hope, Gray's Zool. Misc. 1831, 



circumdata, Mots. Etud. Ent. iii. 1854, p. 50. 



The singular structure of the abdomen has been noticed 

 in the prefatory remarks on the genus, p. 99. 



India ; coll. Hudd, Gorh., (fee, Assam ; Mus. Brus., 

 Brit. Mus. c?,?. 



Luciola indica, Mots. Etud. Ent. iii., p. 53. 



India ; Andaman Isles ; coll. Gorh. 

 Bombay; Mus. Brus. [Guerin]. 



Luciola xanthura, n. sp. 



Elongata, depressa, sordide testacea, sutura apiceque 

 elytrorum flavis, capite nigro, antennis, thoracis disco, 

 abdomineque fuscis, hoc segmentis duobus apicalibus maris 

 albis, eburatis. 



Long. lin. 3. c?. 



Thorax with the base truncate, hind angles right, disc 

 strongly punctured ; elytra obsoletely punctured, nervurcs 

 visible, but faint. 



India, Neilgherry Hills ; Mus. Brus. [Guerin]. 



