Zool. Anz. xviii. 1895, p. 244.
Gerstaecker, Monographie der Endomychiden, Leipzig, 858, 1433 pp. Since this work was published, the species known have been multiplied two or three times.
Stettin. ent. Zeit. xlii. 1881, pp. 104-112.
It is probable that we do not know more than the fiftieth part of the existing species, most of which lead lives that render them very difficult to find.
Bull. ent. ital. 1886, p. 406, and Ent. Zeit. Stettin, xliii. 1887, pp. 201-206. Emery does not mention the name of the species, but we presume it to be the common Italian fire-fly, Luciola italica.