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much as in females of L. hurmlis, and A. lychnus, but less 

 strongly than in the females of L. platygaster, and L. 

 complicata, and the femora are entirely pale. The apex of 

 its prothorax is feebly produced as on females of other 

 species, and the head is only feebly concave. On normal 

 specimens of flavicollis the third segment from the apex of 

 the abdomen is entirely white on both sexes, the two apical 

 ones are dark on the female, and the subapical one has a 

 large, white, medio-basal patch on the male. 



LUCIOLA DEJEANI, Gemm. 



L. apicalis, Boi., n. pr. 



<S . Flavous ; head, antennae, palpi, a spot at apex of 

 each elytron, part of third segment of abdomen, tarsi, and 

 tips of tibiae, black or infuscated; two apical segments of 

 abdomen white. 



Head concave, shining, and with small punctures between 

 eyes. Antennae with third joint slightly longer than fourth. 

 Prothorax about twice as wide as long, depressed near margins, 

 median line distinct; punctures dense. Elytra subparallel- 

 sided to near apex, with feeble remnants of discal costae; 

 punctures small and crowded, but sharply denned. Length, 

 8 mm. 



Hab. — Probably Northern Territory. 



The abdomen appears to be composed of two pale seg- 

 ments, then an infuscated one, then a white one similar in 

 shape to the third, then a long white one with its tip rounded 

 (it is possible, however, that there is a very small white one, 

 inconspicuously attached to the tip of the fifth, and obscured 

 by pubescence). 



There are before me two species, either of which may be 

 dejeani (or possibly neither), the original description is 

 "Lutea, capite nigro; elytris apice nigris; subtus lutea." 

 With a translation into French . The locality was New Holland . 

 But of these two species the one described above (without 

 locality label but probably from Darwin) bears Blackburn's 

 name-label "Luciola dejeani Gemming," and as less of its 

 under-surface is dark than on the other (described below) 

 I shall presume that it is correctly identified ( ? ) ; it is somewhat 

 smaller and narrower than the specimen in the Australian 

 Museum identified by Olliff as dejeani, but appears to belong- 

 to the same species. 



LUCIOLA COSTATA, n. Sp. 



<S . Flavous; head, antennae, palpi, about one-fourth of 

 apex of elytra (less on suture and sides), two segments of 



(7) The type is probably in the Paris Museum. 



