LAMPYRIS. GLOWAVORM. 
Generic Character. 
Antennce filiformes. 
Elytra flexilia. 
Thorax planus, semiorbi- 
cularis, caput subtus oc- 
cultans cingensque. 
Abdominis latera plicato- 
papillosa. 
Femina aptera picrisque. 
Antemite filiform. 
Wing-Sheaths flexile. 
Thorax flat, semiorbicular, 
concealing and surround- 
ing the head. 
Abdomen with the sides 
pleated into papillae. 
Female (in most species) 
wingless. 
TThE body in this genus is oblong, with the sides 
formed into a kind of soft papillag lapping over 
each other. 
" The Lampyris noctiluca or common Glow-Worm 
is a highly curious and interesting animal. It is 
seen during the summer months, as late as tlie 
close of August, if the season be mild, on dry 
banks, about woods, pastures, and hedgeways, ex- 
hibiting, as soon as the dusk of the evening com- 
mences, the most vivid and beautiful pliosphoric 
splendor, in form of a round spot of considerable 
size. The animal itself, which is the female insect, 
measures about three quarters of an inch in length, 
and is of a dull earthy brown colour on the upper 
parts, and beneath more or less tinged with rose- 
