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distinct light-organs, the entire body — in the single specimen 

 before me — being yellowish- white. In communicating to me his 

 discovery of the female Atyphella, Mr. Cox remarks that he did 

 not observe the specimen to be luminous, an observation of the 

 greatest interest and importance, as it goes to support the idea 

 that the females rarely fly in company with the males, but remain 

 concealed in the grass or herbage like the European Liociola 

 already alluded to. At all events the absence of luminosity in 

 the female Atyphella would account for its having escaped the 

 notice of the collector." 



