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XX. Dcscl'iptions of two neiv species of Luciola in the 
collection of Mr. H. E. Andrewes. By Ernest 
Olivier, F.E.S., Member of the Entomological 
Societies of France and Belgium, Correspondent of 
the Museum of Natural History of Paris. 
[Read December 7th, 1910. ] 
I AM indebted to Mr. H. E. Andrewes for the privilege of 
examining a fair collection of Lampyridcie from Ceylon 
and the Nilghirri Hills. Among these, I have found two 
interesting new species of which I give here the descrip¬ 
tions. 
Luciola impressa, n. sp. 
Oblonga, pubescens, capite et antennis nigris ; prothorace trans- 
verso, antice rotundato, in medio antico angulose, basi recte truncato, 
angulis sat prominulis, crebre punctato, flavo, duabus maculis 
piceis discoidalibus ornato ; scutello triangulari, flavo, punctato ; 
elytris oblongis, nigosis, bicostatis, pallide flavidis, macula parva 
basili picea ; pectore flavo, tribus primis segmentis nigris, in medio 
piceis; femoribus et tibiorum l)asi flavis, borum apice ac tar.sis nigris. 
$, tribus ultimis ventris segmentis cereis, lucidis, quinto utrinque 
plaga cerea munito, ultimo supra incurvato, pygidii apice operto ; 
9 , tribis ultimis ventris segmentis flavidis. 
Long. 11-12 mill. 
Ceylon; Kandy, Peradeniya. 
This species is allied to L. var'ia, Ern. Oliv., but it may 
easily be distinguished by the black colour of the head, 
the confused puncturing of the elytra, the structure of the 
pygidium, and of the last ventral segments of the ^; the 
fifth ventral segment has two lateral shells, the sixth is 
produced into a narrow quadrangular lobe recurved upward 
and hid by the apex of the pygidium recurved beneath. 
It differs from L. humeralis, Walk., by the black head, 
the pitchy spots of the prothorax, and by the apex of the 
elytra being entirely yellow. 
One 9 specimen has the prothorax entirely yellow. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. (1910). —PART IV. (DEC.) 
