108 Mr. Arthur M. Lea's Revision of the 



LuciOLA AUSTRALis, Fab. {Lam^njris), Syst. Ent., p. 201 ; 

 Boisd., Voy. Astr., II, p. 125 ; PI. VI, fig. 13 ; Gorhara, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, p. 104. 

 gu6rini, Cast., Essai, p. 151, note. 

 nigripennis, Latr., Dej. Cat., 3 ed., p. 116. 



The original description of this species is both brief and 

 contradictory. It is first described as " capite elytrisque 

 fuscis"; then " Caput atrum . . . Elytra nigra. " It may 

 quite possibly have been founded upon specimens of 

 jnidica, as it is further described as " Suhttts fiavicans, 

 abdominus ultimis segmentis Jlavissimis." (This alone will 

 readily distinguish it from liumilis and platyg aster.) 



As Boisduval described the abdomen as "jaune ou d'un 

 jaune roussatre avec le quatrieme segment d'un brun 

 noiratre," I think it extremely probable that the species 

 described by him as aiistralis was really not that species ; 

 especially as his specimen was from New Ireland, whilst 

 the Fabrician type was taken by Banks in New Holland. 



In Masters' catalogue, gu4rini and nigripennis are 

 given as synonyms of australis. The description of gu4rini 

 I have not seen, but nigripennis is a catalogue name only. 



Hah. New Holland. 



LuciOLA DEJEANi, Gemm., Col. Heft., VI, 1870, p. 120 ; 

 Oil., P. L. S., N.S.W., 1889, p. 658. 



Lampyris apicalis, Boisd. (n. pr.), Voy. Astr., II, 

 p. 127 ; Dej., Cat., 3 ed., p. 116. 

 The specimen identified by Olliff as apicalis is a large 

 and distinct species with one-fifth of the apex of the 

 elytra dark. I have seen nothing else like it. 

 Hah. Australia : Victoria River Expedition. 



LuciOLA cowLEYi, Blackb., T. R. S., S.A., 1897, p. 34. 



Readily distinguished by the dark disc of its prothorax 

 and by each elytron having several distinct costae. In 

 general appearance, except as to its exposed head, it 

 resembles the species of Atyphella. 



Hah. N. Queensland. 



LuciOLA humilis, Oliv., Nov, Zool., Ill, 1896, p. 2. (Figs. 

 89, 99.) 



Only the male was known to Olivier ; the female differs 

 in being slightly larger and wider, head with much smaller 



