410 Rev. H. S. Gorham's revision of the 



Luciola parvula. 

 Luciola parvula, Kiesenw., loc. cit., p. 263. 



This is a small species of the L. indica type, but with 

 the red thorax partly infuscate, and (with the head) 

 coarsely punctate ; the elytra are also strongly punctured 

 and substriate. 



There is only one specimen (a male) in Mr. Lewis' 

 collection now ; it is distinct from any other species I have 

 examined. 



Luciola gorhami. 



Luciola Gorhami, Eitsema, Notes from the Leyden 



Museum, v., p. 4 [1882] . 

 L. affinis, Gorham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1880, 



p. 101 (nee Ritsema, Tijdschr. v. Ent., xviii. 



(1875), p ; 129). 

 L. prceusta, Kiesenw., loc. cit., p. 263 ; Lewis, Cat. 



Col. Jap., p. 17, No. 1206 (nee. Eschscholtz, 



Entom. i. (1822), p. 57). 



The differences between this species and what I regard 

 as L. vespertina, Fab., have been pointed out by me in 

 the place cited. I have seen no reason to alter my 

 opinion as to the distinctness of either this or other 

 forms of the vespertina group ; but great confusion exists 

 in the synonymy. I cannot yet tell what the type of 

 L.japonica, Thunb., may prove to be, but the description 

 (Fab., Mant. i. 162) does not point to this species : " L. 

 flava segmento abdominis aDtepenultimo nigro. . . Tota 

 flava, antennis, oculis, alis segmentoque abdominis ante- 

 penultimo nigris " ; for the insect, of which there is a 

 single specimen in Mr. Lewis' collection, is closely allied 

 to L. vespertina, has the head black, as well as the apex 

 of the elytra, and has the antepenultimate segment 

 entirely yellow. Olivier (Ent. ii., No. 28, 19) expressly 

 says, "La tete est d'un jaune fauve, avec la partie 

 superieure et les yeux noires." It must be remembered 

 that all authors are but following Thunberg, who after 

 all may have been describing a Cape of Good Hope 

 insect. I propose therefore to omit L. japonica from 

 the list at present. 



[Luciola lateralis, Mots., Schrenk, Reis., 1860, p. 114 ; 

 Lewis, Cat. Col. Jap., p. 17, No. 1208. Referred to 

 Dauria, E. Siberia, by Motschulsky. I have not seen it 

 from Japan.] 



