106 Mr. Arthiu' M. Lea's Revision of the 



A specimen from Brisbane in Mr. lUidge's collection, 

 which I believe to be the male, differs in being narrower, 

 the antennae thinner and longer with the 10th joint 

 more than thrice as long as wide ; the head (which is 

 unarmed) with a narrower impression connecting the 

 inter-antennal impression with the base; the anterior 

 femora, stouter and the penultimate segment of abdomen 

 rather deeply semicircular ly emarginate. 



In general appearance much like the preceding species 

 and insidiator ; from the former it differs in being much 

 smaller, the antennae shorter and stouter, femora unarmed 

 in the male (if the male is correctly identified, as I think 

 it is), besides the differences as noted above ; from the latter 

 species (of which at first the specimens appear to be 

 very small examples) it can be distinguished by its rather 

 narrower form and median prothoracic impression (in 

 insidiator this is distinctly deepest and widest in the 

 middle in both sexes); the end joint of its antennae is 

 also differently proportioned. 



SUBFAMILY LAMPYRIDES. 



Genus LuciOLA,* Cast., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., II, p. 146 ; 

 Lacord., Gen. Coleop., IV, p. 835 ; Olliff, P. L. S., 

 N.S.W., 1889, p. 652. 



The Australian fireflies have been referred to two 

 genera, but I have doubts as to the propriety of regarding 

 Atyphdla as more than a slight subgenus of Luciola. It 

 is to be noticed that the shape of the terminal segments of 

 the abdomen do not bear out the theory of generic dis- 

 tinction. In the only female of Atyiihella (lychmis) that I 

 know, the penultimate segment of the abdomen is much 

 as in L. humilis, flavicollis and platygaster, whilst the 

 two apical segments are much alike in the males of A. 

 scintillans, lyclinus, hrevis and L. jyiidica ; but these do not 

 resemble the same segments in L. flavicollis, humilis and 

 coivlcyi (which are all much alike) and platygastcr is again 

 very different. In Atyphella, however, the front angles of 

 the prothorax are much more rounded than in Luciola. 



Germar redescribed in his " Insektenfauna von Adelaide," 

 Lampyris marginipennis, Guer., and L. striata, Fab., re- 

 ferring them both to Colophotia; in Masters' Catalogue 



* For full synonymy of this genus see Lacordaire. 



