TELEPHORID.E LAMPYRID.E 249 



xxix. * Subgenus Brachynotus. Kirb. 



Prothorax transverse, short, anteriorly and posteriorly subemarginate. 



This subgenus has the palpi of Malthacus, but the prothorax is of a very different shape ; it 

 comes near to Pygolampis, or Lampyris italica L. 



(342) 1. * Telephorus (Brachynotus) Bennetii. Bennefs T. Brachynotus. 



T. B. f Bennetii) niger, naso prothoraceque pattidis ; hoc macula discoidali nigro. 



Bennet's T. Brachynotus, black ; nose and prothorax pale, the latter with a black discoidal spot. 



Length of the body 6 lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby, and in Massachusets by Mr. Drake. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black, hoary with decumbent hairs. Head suborbicular, punctured behind the antennae ; 

 neck rufous ; front, before the antenna?, pale yellow ; exterior margin of the nose black ; mandibles 

 yellow at the base ; antennae longer than the prothorax : prothorax pale yellow, disk elevated with a 

 black irregular punctured spot : elytra minutely and confluently punctured, somewhat dilated exter- 

 nally ; obsoletely tricarinate : legs black ; knees rufous. 



Family LAMPYRID^. Lampyridans. 



CXL. Genus LAMPYRIS. Linn. 



(343) 1. Lampyris corusca. Glittering Lampyris. 



Lampyris corusca. Linn. Syst. Nat. ii, 644, 2. Uddm. iV. Sp.Ins.Al. Fab. Spec. Ins. i. 251,3; Syst. Eleuth.u, 

 100, 3. Oliv. Ent. ii, 28, 19, 14, t. ii,/. 14. Sturm. Ins. Cab. ii, t. xxii. 



Length of the body 4J lines. 



Taken at New York and Cumberland-house Lat. 54°. In CVmada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body oblong, pubescent, brown-black. Nose and mouth elongated : prothorax nearly semicir- 

 cular, disk elevated ; a rose-coloured arched streak dilated and yellower anteriorly adjoins the elevated 

 part on each side : elytra obsoletely carinated, most numerously and minutely punctured. 



Linne gives this as a native of Finland and Russia, on the authority of Uddmann, but it has 

 not since been found there. Perhaps Uddmann might have mistaken American specimens for 

 European. 



The Lampyridce seem to lead towards the Blattina, I have therefore placed them last in the 

 series of insects with soft elytra, as connected with the Orthoptera in a different point from Meloe. 

 Mr. Stephens has placed the Brachelytra next to the Dermaptera, and not without some appearance 

 of reason, but their connection with Necrophorus and consequently with the Necrophaga, b is so 

 much more striking that I do not see how they can be displaced without violating nature. 



8 See above, p. 82—86. 2 K 



