78 Ins. 
COLEOPTERA. 
TeLEPHORIDjE. 
Lycides. 
Bourgeois, J. Monographie des Lycides de Pancien monde. L’Ab. xx. 
pp. 1-9G. 
A most elaborate monograph, but containing little new. The part 
now published extends to the genus Platycis , Thoms. 
H. S. Gorham notices the characters of Conderis , Xylobanus , Ditoneces, 
and Lyropccus ; Notes Leyd. Mus. iv. pp. 88, 96, 99, & 100, notes. 
Calopteron gorhami, Bourgeois, ledescribed by him ; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(6) ii. p. 141. 
Ilomalisus unicolor, Costa, noticed as new to France ; II. sanguinipcnnis , 
Cast., is not French, the supposed French specimens being referable to 
Platycis cosnardi , Chevr. A list of the 6 known species of Ilomalisus 
with their localities, is added ; Bourgeois, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. 
pp. c. & ci. II. taurinensis , Bon., recorded from Nice; id. 1. c. p. lxxxvi. 
Adoceta, g. n., Bourgeois, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. p. lxxxvi., L’Ab. xx. 
pp. 55 & 96. Allied to Lygistopterus ; mouth not prolonged into a ros- 
trum. Type, A. caroli, sp. n., 1. c. p. 97, Algeria [p. 97 issued in 1883]. 
New species : — 
Lycus revoili , pi. i. fig. 6, and consobrinus, Bourgeois, Revoil’s Faune et 
Flore Qomal. Col. pp. 44 & 46, Somali-land. 
Metriorrhynchus pellitus , p. 93, cinnabarinus , purpurascens , p. 94, 
amcenus , luteus , p. 95, and infuscatus , p. 96, Gorham, Notes Leyd. Mus. iv. ; 
also in Vetli’s Midden-Sumatra, iv. pt. 6, Col. pp. 60-62, Sumatra. 
Cautires ocularis , Bourgeois, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. p. ci., Gaboon. 
Xylobanus reticulatus , p. 96, X. (?) dimidiatus , and X. tinctus , p. 97, 
Gorham, ll. cc., Sumatra. 
Conderis miniatus, id. ll. cc pp. 98 & 64, Sumatra. 
Ditoneces rufo-brunneus, pp. 99 & 64, tricolor , pp. 99 & 65, flavicolor , 
pp. 100 & 65, ll. cc ., Sumatra. 
Lyropccus waterhousii and ritsemcc , id. ll. cc. pp. 100, 101, & 66, Sumatra. 
Callimerus ornatus , id. Notes Leyd. Mus. iv. p. 110, Sumatra. 
Emplectus atricollis and erichsoni , Bourgeois, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. 
p. 142, Colombia. 
Plateros citrinicollis , p. 143, antennalis and chrysomelas , p. 144, id. 1. c. f 
New Granada. 
Lampyrides . 
Wielowiejski, H. v. Studien fiber die Lampyriden. Z. wiss. Zool. 
xxxvii. pp. 354-428, pis. xxiii. & xxiv. 
After an historical and critical introduction, the author treats of the 
method of investigation; the parenchyma of the luminous organs (under 
which he discusses the lumiuous ventral organs of the sexually mature 
animal, and the lateral lumiuous organs of the female and larva) ; the 
tracheal system of the luminous organs ; the nervous system ; the fatty 
portions; the cuticle ; the organ ologicjil position of the luminous organs; 
