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mandibles very prominent, arcuate j antennal joints 3-10 with two basal 
branches; tarsi with joints 1-3 nearly cylindrical, 4 deeply bilobed ; head 
not rostrated. Sp. C. apicalis, sp. n., p. 09, from Bogota. 
New species : — 
Lycus. Kirsch (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1865) describes the following five new 
species of this genus from Bogota : — L. lacordairei^ 1. c. p. 51 j L. yuerini and 
L. buquetif 1. c. p. 62 ; L. miles and L. thoraciciis, 1. c. p. 63. 
Calopteron. Kirscli (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1805) describes the following 
thirty-four new species from Bogota, and gives a tabular synopsis of their 
general characters (pp. 54-55) : — C. excellens, 1. c. p. 65; C. fallax, C, coni- 
thorax (Taf. iii. fig. 1, max. palp.), C. basalis, and C. varieyatus, 1. c. p. 56 ; C. 
jiamcauda and C. dickrous, 1. c. p. 57 ; C. palpalis, C. unicolor, and C. costa- 
tidus, 1. c. p. 58; C. yracilis, C. socius, and C. jucundus, 1. c. p. 69 ; C. amoenus, 
C. suavis, and C. rete, 1. c. p. 60 ; C. nubilosus, C. mesomelas, and C. delicatus 
(Taf. iii. fig. 2, max. palp.), 1. c. p. 61 ; C. biciispis, C. acroxanthus, and C. 
ketus, 1. c. p. 62 ; C. yratus, C. illitus, C. xanthurus, 1. c. p. 63 ; C. scutellaris 
and C, bellus (Taf. iii. fig. 3, max. palp.), 1. c. p. 64 ; C. pusillus and C.dictyon, 
1. c. p. 65 ; C. pleio vanthus (Taf. iii. fig. 4, max. palp.), C. xanthomelas, C.pleio- 
melas, and C. sina.itus (Taf. iii. figs. 5, 5 a, palpi), 1. c. p. 06 ; and C.cxcisus, 1. c. 
p. 67. 
£ros bogotcnsis, Kirsch, /. c. p. 67, and E. phoenicurus, p. 68, from Bogota. 
Lampy rides. 
Cameron (Our Possessions in Malayan India) describes the light of the 
Fireflies as simultaneously intermittent, producing an alternation of light and 
darkness. This subject was discussed before the Entomological Society of 
I^ondon by Hamlet Clark, M ‘Lachlan, Bates, Saunders, and others. See 
Proc. Ent. Soc. 1866, pp. 94-95. The simultaneous emission and cessation 
of the light by great numbers of Fireflies is affirmed in a letter from A. Fry, 
as regards the species of Asjndosoma, 1. c. pp. 101-102. 
A Glow-worm with nine pairs of luminous spots is described as occurring 
in Ceylon. Letter in ‘ Ceylon Examiner,’ cited by Clark, Proc. Ent. Soc. 
1805, p. 101. 
New species : — 
Alychnus, g. n., Kirsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. p. 71. Allied to Photinus ; 
head covered by prothorax ; antennte 11-jointed, somewhat compressed, 
attenuated at apex, half length of body, 2nd joint short, conical ; elytra in 
S' equal to abdomen, shorter in $ ; 4th joint of tarsi deeply bilobed ; claws 
with a strong tooth at base. Sp. A. xunthorrhaphus, sp. n., Kirsch, 1. c. 
p. 72, from Bogota. 
Photuris. Of this genus Kirsch describes eight new species from Bogota: 
namely, P. yibbifera and P. didyma, 1. c. p. 75 ; P. annulata, P. lurida, and 
P. lecontei, 7 c. p. 76; P. seminigra and P. discoidalis, 1. c. p. 77 ; and P. sig- 
nifera, 1. c. p. 78. 
Lamprocera castelnaui, Kirsch, 1. c. p. 09, from Bogota. 
Cladodes solieri, Kirsch, /. c. p. 70, from Bogota. 
Eryplelytra calocera, Kirsch, 1. c. p. 70, from Bogota. 
