90 ORDER COLEOPTERA. 



Lampykis cobbdsca. ( Plate xxi, fig. 1.) 



Thorax with a black spot, rounded at the skies, and prolonged to the anterior extremity 

 of the thorax, bordered with rufous and yellowish; margin with a black narrow 

 border. Elytra black or dark blown. 



Lampyris versicolor. ( Plate xxi, tig. (5.) 



Body long. Thorax lined with black in the centre and posteriorly, and with ova] rufoue 



spots on each side; margin yellow. Elytra dark brown, margined with yellow, and 



with an acute band behind, running from the anterior and outer angle to the opposite 



interior angle. Length rather more than one-fourth of an inch. 



Gents DICTYOPTERA ( Lt.). Lycus (Stph.). 

 ' Head short : females winged : mandibles entire" (Westwood). 



DlCTYOPTERA TERMINALIS. (Plate XXJ, fig. 8.) 



Thorax black in the middle, bordeied with n ddish yellow : antenna?, legs and abdomen 

 black : elytra pale orange, terminated with blue-black, and longitudinally veined : 

 inosculating transverse reinlets between and uniting them ; wings bordered with pale 

 orange, shaded at their extremity. Length I 



DlCTYOPTERA RETICULATA. ( Plate XXJ, fig. 7.) 



Thorax with a central black spot, bordered with orange : antenna?, legs and abdomen 

 black : elytra orange, with two large blue-black oval spots ; veins six, alternately 

 thick. and thin : wings black at their tips, and shaded blackish. Length ? 

 Both species are furnished with conspicuous antennae. 



Telephoridse. 



Telephoris? . ( Plate xxvi, fig. 1.) 



Body soft, elongate, linear : elytra covering the abdomen; terminal joint of the labial 

 palpi securiform ; eyes prominent. Color of the body, head, and middle of the thorax 

 black or dark brown ; middle of the elytra brown, edges rufous ; labium and outer 

 margins of the thorax thin and rufous. Length half an inch. 



O.maliscs cocci natcs ( Say). 

 Thorax indented : elytra orange, reticulated with longitudinal veins and a transverse 

 network of veinlets : antennas slightly rufous, and bordering upon brown or black. 



