46 Mr. Arthur M. Lea's B.cvision of the 



form no larger a percentage of the whole than in other 

 families of equal extent. 



The species almost entirely live on flowers or on leaves, 

 and feed on nectar or on other insects ; the larvae of but 

 few species are known, but those of the Lycidcs live in 

 rotting wood or underground. 



I have to thank the Rev. T. Blackburn for co-types of 

 several of his species; Mr. W. J. Rainbow for co-types 

 of some species, the types of which are in the Australian 

 Museum ; but in particular Mr. George Masters for co- 

 types and other specimens from his own and the rich 

 Macleay Museum collections, without which my work 

 would have been greatly hampered. 



I have examined the whole of the types and other 

 specimens in the Macleay and Australian Museums, the 

 specimens in the National Museum in the Departments of 

 Agriculture of New South Wales and Tasmania, and in 

 the collections of Messrs. H. J. Carter, C. French, W. W. 

 Froggatt, J. C. Goudie, H. H. D. Griffith,* R. Tllidge, 

 Aug. Simson and Taylor. I have also received many 

 specimens from Messrs. Edmund Allen,t A. J. Coates, 

 D. Dumbrell, R. Helms, T. G. Sloane, J. G. Otto Tepper, 

 J. J. Walker, J. C. Wiburd and others. With the localities 

 for the new species I have always given the collectors' 

 names, but I have not considered these necessary for 

 previously described species. 



The whole collection dealt with is rich in specimens 

 from Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, and 

 South-West Australia ; comparatively rich from South 

 Australia and Victoria, and poor from North- West 

 Australia ; whilst the Northern Territory and Central 

 Australia are practically unrepresented. When not other- 

 wise specified the types of the new species remain in my 

 own collection. 



At the end I have placed a number of species, which it 

 is quite impossible to identify from the published descrip- 

 tions, or even to satisfactorily place generically. 



Two species {Lampyris marginijMnnis, Guer., and L. 

 striata, Fab.) have been wrongly recorded from Australia. \ 



* Including a fine series sent to him by Mr. F. P. Dodd from 

 North Queensland. 



f It was through receiving a remarkable species of Lains from 

 this gentleman that I was induced to revise the family. 



J See notes under Luciola. 



