382 A. FE. Verrili— The Bermuda Islands. 794 
One of the more common American species (P. pyralis), Fi g. 169 
is blackish-brown with a narrow, pale yellowish line along each 
margin of the elytra ; the thorax has a yellow margin, and a reddish 
spot in the middle, centered with a black spot. It is about half an 
inch long. The larve are also luminous in this and some other 
species, and in that state they resemble the true Glow-worms. 
Larger Fire-beetle-—Mr. Hurdis (Rough Notes, p. 329) records 
169 
Figure 169.—Fire-fly (Photinus pyralis) ; c, imago, natural size; a, larva; f, e, d, 
head, under side of segment, and leg of same; b, pupa in its earth-covered 
case; after Riley. Figure 170.—Fire-fly (Photuris Pennsylvanica) ; a, 
imago; J, 
a foreign species ; after Packard. 
larva of Photinus; c, Glow-worm, adult wingless female of 
seeing a large, bright, undetermined fire-fly, Aug. 14, 1850. I am 
not aware that it has been subsequently seen or determined. The 
common American Fire-fly rests on the under side of the leaves of 
low shrubs, or on weeds and grass, in the day time. It would 
undoubtedly be easy to introduce several of our southern species.* 
Buprestids; Shining Wood-borers; Flat-headed Borers. (Buprestis, 
etc.) 
The best known example is a North American species (Aneylo- 
cheira decora (Fabr.) Dej.= Buprestis decora Oliv.) recorded by 
Jones in 1876. 
Chrysobothris impressa (p. 786, fig. 155, a) has been determined 
for me by Mr. 8S. Henshaw from Mr. T. G. Gosling’s collection. 
Elaters ; Snapping-beetles ; Skipping-beetles ; Click-beetles; Wire- 
worms. 
This family is represented by several undetermined species. The 
most common is a species of Agriotes. Perhaps it is A. mancus, 
whose larva is a Wire-worm destructive to wheat and grass in the 
United States. 
* For descriptions of the N. American species of this family, see Leconte, 
Synopsis Lampyride, Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc., ix, pp. 15-72, 1881. 
