BY ERNEST OLIVIER. 
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a. The tip of the elytra in male not folded. 
b. Last ventral segment of male with two long elevated 
appendicles curved upwards. 
17. Colophotia miranda , Ern. Oliv.—Broad, convex, wholly 
testaceous ; tibiae, tarsi and antennae fuscous. 
18. Colophotia brevis, Ern. Oliv. — Testaceous ; head, 
antennae, tarsi and extreme tip of the elytra 
black. 
b. Last ventral segment of male semicircular or mucronate , 
but not with two elevated appendicles. 
19. Luciola hamulata , Ern. Oliv.—Testaceous, last ventral 
segment acuminate and curved upwards. 
20. Luciola substriata , Gorh.—Testaceous, with the extreme 
tip of the elytra fuscous; punctures of the elytra 
arranged in rows; apical ventral segment almost 
semicircular. 
21. Luciola pallescens, Gorh.—Broad and depressed, pale 
testaceous; thorax spotted with piceous. 
22. Luciola perspicua , Ern. Oliv.—Testaceous; head, one 
fore spot on the thorax and the tip of the elytra 
black. 
23. Luciola nitescens, Ern. Oliv.—Thorax, scutellum and 
body rufous; elytra black, with the base narrowly 
yellow. 
24. Luciola semimarginata, Ern. Oliv.—Rufous ; head black, 
elytra black, with the external margin narrowly 
rufous along half its base. 
25. Luciola maculipennis, nov. sp.—Oblongo-elongata, flava; 
capite nigro, antennis, palpis, genubus, tibiis et 
tarsis piceis ; prothorace flavo, convexo, transverso, 
antice attenuato, basi sinuato, in medio iongitudin- 
aliter sulcato, crebre punctato; scutello flavo, 
triangulari, tenue punctato; elytris elongatis, 
crebre et profunde sparsim punctatis, quadricosta- 
tis, pallide flavis, apice fuscis; ventre flavo, duobus 
ultimis segmentis cereis, ultimo sinuato, in medio 
postico triangulariter acuminato—Long. 18 mill. 
Sarawak, in mense Julii capto (in museo meo). 
This is the first attempt to report on the fireflies of 
Borneo, and it must of necessity be very incomplete; but 
