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remained for a little while quite immoveable, as if 
stunned or frightened, but began soon to crawl 
very slowly and steadily. I then caught it, and, 
from the remembrance I had of the Linmean 
species, I directly took it for a non-descript of this 
genus. Some few days after, coming into my 
room from supper, with a light in my hand, and 
having put it upon the table, there instantly fell 
another down from the ceiling. The third I was 
favoured with by the then Governor, Mr. Dawes, 
who informed me that it had dropped down before 
him on the table, just when he had entered his 
room, and was going to write. The other three, 
which I afterwards collected, were also got upon 
similar occasions, and from thence I thought I had 
some reason to conclude that it is a nocturnal 
animal, that it l)ecomes benumbed by candle- 
light, that it lives in wood, and prefers new-built 
houses, &c. After the end of February I never 
saw any more. The last which I caught I put 
into a box, and left confined there for a day or 
two. One evening, going to look at it, and 
•happening to stand between the light and the 
box, so that my shadow fell upon the insect, I 
observed to my great astonishment, the globes of 
•the antennae, like two lanthorns, spreading a dim 
.phosphoric light. This singular phenomenon 
raised my curiosity, and, after having examined it 
several times that niglit, I resolved to repeat my 
researches the following day. But the animal, 
being exhausted, died before the morning, and 
the light disappeared. And afterwards, not being 
