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striata is placed in Luciola and recorded from S. 

 Australia; marginipennis being omitted. Both, in fact, 

 are not Australian; the latter was recorded as being 

 " Trouve a Offak, Terre des Papous," * the former as 

 having its " Habitat in Insulis maris pacifici." As to 

 Germar's specimens, he gives no indication as to where 

 they were from, but they were cez'tainly not S. Australian, 

 it is possible of course that he had access to and re- 

 described the types. 



Quite recently Mons. Olivier has given a " Catalogue 

 synonymique et Systematique des Especes de Luciola et 

 Genres Voisins " in which nine species f are recorded as 

 Australian but the genus Atyphella was overlooked; his 

 decora, however, is certainly Olliff's Atyphella scintillans. 

 I have not seen the work in which the catalogue appears, 

 but a reprint (for which I am indebted to Mons. Oliver) is 

 marked as having been abstracted from the " Revue 

 scientifique du Bourbonnais et du Centre de la France," 

 for May, 1902. 



The only living fireflies I have seen belong to 

 Atyphella lychnus, and I did not examine their eyes when 

 fresh ; but in three species (Z. fiavicollis, htcmilis and 

 A. brevis) recently received in spirits from Mr. Allen, the 

 eyes, before the bodies dried up, were of a deep metallic- 

 blue ; these, however, changed to black on the bodies 

 drying up. 



The species of Luciola before me may be tabulated as 

 follows : — ■ 



A. Prothorax partly dark cowleyi, Blackb. 



AA. Prothorax entirely pale. 



B. Elytra partly pale flavicollis, Macl. 



BB. Elytra entirely dark. 



C. Metasternum pale pudica, Oil. 



CC. Metasternum dark. 



D. Male with apical segment of 

 abdomen strongly produced in 



middle only. humilis, Oliv. 



DD. Male with this segment produced 



at sides as well as in middle . platygaster, n. sp. 



* I cannot find this place on any modern map. (The locality is 

 in all probability Mount Arfak, in the north-western peninsula of 

 New Guinea. — J. J. W.) 



t Several of these are here regarded as synonyms. 



