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sides divided by an oblique ridge from the hind angles. Type, Lycus 
fi'aternus, Rand. 
CalleroSy Gorham, Biol. Centr. Amer. Col. iii. (2) p. 25. Allied to 
Plateros ; to contain Eros phcenicurus, Kirsch, and C. p)uniceus (type) 
rufo-hrunneus^ militaris, and sinanjce, spp. nn., L c. p. 2G, Guatemala. 
Calolycus, id. 1. c. p. 27. Allied to Plateros : prothorax expanded at 
sides, elytra oval ; type, C. calanticatus, sp. n., 1. c. pi. iv. fig. 3, Mexico. 
Calodadon, id. 1. c. Allied to Plateros and Calopteron ; to contain 
Calopt. loitum, Kirsch, and C. testaceum^ pi. ii. fig. 20, and Calod. oculatum^ 
Guatemala and Nicaragua, p. 28, and fusculumSiXidpectinicorms^ Chontales, 
p. 29, spp. nn. 
Lycostomus fulvellus^ Leconte, l.c. p. 18, Colorado. 
Calopteron retiferum and tricarinatum, id. 1 . c. p. 20, Arizona. 
Ccenia amplicornis, id. 1. c. p. 22, Colorado. 
Calochromus fervens, id. 1. c. p. 28, Colorado. 
Stadenus auherti^ Bourgeois, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. p. xxxvii., 
Gaboon. 
Pyropterus himalejicus^ id. 1. c. p. cxliv., Sikkim. 
Plateros patiens and stramineus^ Gorham, Biol. Centr. Am. Col. iii. (2) 
p. 25, Guatemala. 
Homalisus {Phceopterus, Costa) nigricornis^ Reitter, Deutsche E. Z. xxv. 
p. 220, Dalmatia, Montenegro. 
Lampy rides. 
Leconte, J. L. On Lightning Bugs {Lampyridce). P. Am. Ass. 1880, 
pp. 650-659. 
The author summarizes the present classification, and our knowledge 
of the luminosity of the group, and suggests that spectroscopic, bio- 
logical, and chemical investigations should be undertaken to determine 
the real character of the light. 
Observations on fire-flies {Lampyrides ?] ; Pryer, Ent. M. M. xvii. 
pp. 244 & 245. 
Gorham, Biol. Centr. Am. Col. iii. (2), figures and describes the fol- 
lowing species of Lampyrides (chiefly his own) : Lamprocera picta, fig. 1, 
Hyas rhomhoidea, fig. 2, angularis (p. 30), Cladodes plumosa, fig. 21, 
Phcenolis laciniatus, fig. 22, JEthra despecta, fig. 3, Lucidota silphoides and 
apicicornis, and osculatii, Guer. (p. 35), bella, fig. 4, apicalis, fig. 5, pi. iii., 
atra, Oliv. (== laticornis, Fabr., p. 37), Photinus congruus, Chevr., fig. 12 
(p. 38), perelegans, pi. iii. fig. 12, p. 40, cinctellus, pi. iv. figs. 23 & 24, 
p. 42, guatemalm, fig. 10, lunicolUs.^ fig. 9, p. 44, sanguinicollis, fig. 8, 
aurora^ fig. 7, p. 45, perlucens., fig. 11, pi. iii. p. 46, Lucidota calif ornica^ 
Gorh. {nec Mots.), renamed Photinus sohrinus, Dugiis, MS., P. coruscus, 
L. (= autiimnalis, Mels.), p. 49, Pyrectomena angulata, Say, pi. iv. fig. 19, 
p. 50, striateUa, fig. 13, Cratomorphus fuscipennis, Mots. (= latus, Kirsch), 
p. 51, Aspidosoma cegrotum, fig. 16, depictiim, fig. 17, pi. iii., pulchellum, 
fig. 15, p. 54, ignitum, L. {— polyzona, Chevr.), hilineatum,, figs. 8 & 9, 
pi. iv., costatuniy fig. 18, p. 55, Photuris collaris.,^g. 15, lucidicollis, fig. 14, 
pi. iii. p. 58, pennsylvanica, De Geer (= versicolor, Fab. = vittigera and 
